When Tangedco was reeling under Rs. 1.20-lakh crore loss, how will the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam provide 100 units of free power to each household as promised in its poll manifesto, wondered Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MP Kanimozhi.
Addressing reporters here on Friday, Ms. Kanimozhi said that when Chief Minister Jayalalithaa increased power tariff three times in the past five years, how could she keep her promise on free power. She said that the AIADMK took a copy of the DMK’s manifesto and pasted a sticker of the Chief Minister on it.
Many poll promises of the AIADMK, including maternity leave, reduction of milk price to Rs. 25 per litre, were lifted from the DMK’s manifesto, she said.
At Thengampudur
At a street corner election campaign meeting in Thengampudur junction, Ms. Kanimozhi said that DMK president Karunanidhi had announced and implemented Re. 1 per kg of rice and waiver of farm loans in 2006.
On the ‘July agitation’ by the Bharatiya Janata Party, demanding extension of education scholarship to Hindu students as given to those belonging to minority communities, why the party did not implement it even after two years of sitting in power, she questioned.
When the AIADMK government kept silent even after the death of anti-liquor crusader and Gandhian Sasi Perumal, how could it implement total prohibition in the State, she said.
She also condemned the attack on members of a non-governmental organisation which staged an agitation for closure of a Tasmac retail outlet in Maduravoyal in Chennai on Thursday.
Ms. Kanimozhi campaigned for DMK and Congress candidates contesting in Kanyakumari district.
