PMK president G.K. Mani has said that the five-cornered fight between the DMK, AIADMK, BJP, PMK and DMDK-People Welfare Front in the coming Assembly elections in the State gives a distinct advantage to his party.
Prohibition
“The splitting of votes will help PMK the most because of a plethora of reasons. Our Chief Minister candidate Anbumani Ramadoss is an young, dynamic leader with a proven track record as an administrator.
Moreover, the youth and women voters are eagerly waiting to exercise their franchise to get a liquor and corruption free State. It was actually the PMK that first talked about prohibition more than two decades back and people knew that well,” he told reporters here on Saturday.
He said that of the 22.33 lakh widows in the State, around 91 per cent of them lost their husbands because of their habitual drinking.
“Among the women who lost their husbands due to alcoholism, about 85 per cent are young persons. These young women and the youth of the State in general are going to vote in support of PMK’s pursuit to create a liquor-free State and the action plans which the party has drawn to generate employment,” he claimed.
The PMK would ensure creation of Lokayukta to eradicate corruption, which was rampant during both the AIADMK and DMK regimes.
“In those days, the voters did not have an alternative party to look towards to. Now PMK is seen as the alternative to fight against corruption,” he said adding that people did not have faith in DMDK-PWF combine.
Vaiko first stated that the PWF would only select a Chief Minister from the MLAs and then announced later that Vijayakant would be the Chief Minister candidate for the PWF-DMDK combine.
To a query whether the PMK would bring out a legislation to curb honour killing, Mr. Mani said that if voted to power, the party would ensure that no honour killing takes place in the State.
