Scaling up the party’s election rhetoric, DMK treasurer M. K. Stalin on Sunday sought a “fair verdict” from the people of Tamil Nadu in the Assembly election against the AIADMK’s “misrule and bad governance.”
Addressing a rally to raise questions against the ruling party and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa here, Mr. Stalin accused the AIADMK of derailing the State from the development path laid by the DMK. In a speech filled with rhetoric and questions, the DMK leader claimed that the State had plunged to the bottom in development scale in the last four years. There was no transparency in governance and officials committed suicide, unable to withstand pressure to indulge in corruption. It did not deliver on promises and had failed to take up development projects, like the Tamirabharani river link and Udangudi power plant.
He said Ms. Jayalalithaa was the only Chief Minister in the country to have stalled a mega development project like the Sethusamudram Ship Channel. The Madurai-Tuticorin industrial corridor was yet to take off and there was no follow-up on the satellite city for Madurai, announced by her in the Assembly. After spending several crores of rupees on publicising the global investors’ meet, it was yet to happen, Mr. Stalin said.
