Chief Minister K. Palaniswami is taking up the issue of Central Government’s permission to tap hydrocarbon in Pudukottai district and the people’s opposition to the project, said School Education Minister K.A. Sengottaiyan in Coimbatore on Monday. Addressing reporters at the Coimbatore International Airport, he said that the CM was taking up the issue and only after he returns would he be able to comment on it. Likewise, the CM had also taken up the Kerala Government constructing dams across River Bhavani.
For now, the Kerala Government had stopped, Mr. Sengottaiyan said and added that he was hopeful of a positive outcome.
The State eagerly awaited the presidential nod for the Act to exempt the State’s students from taking the NEET exam and he was hopeful that it would come soon.
His Department had planned to introduce yoga in schools.
To a query, he said the AIADMK under the Chief Minister, and deputy general secretary T.T.V. Dinakaran had the ‘two leaves’ symbol.
On DMK working president M.K. Stalin’s comment demanding removal of Jayalalithaa’s photograph from government offices, he said Mr. Stalin had no right to comment on the issue. It was because of Jayalalithaa that the AIADMK was in power.
