Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and allies will win in all the 59 assembly constituencies in nine southern districts in the State, M.K. Alagiri, Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers, has promised.
He was inaugurating a mega medical camp-cum-special function to honour meritorious rural students at Kadamalaigundu near here on Sunday.
The camp not only provided advanced medical care to the needy and the poor but was also an indicator of the epilogue for the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. “The AIADMK will vanish from Tamil Nadu after 2011 assembly elections,” he predicted.
Listing the achievements of the DMK-led government and its several welfare schemes, including marriage assistance and aid to pregnant women, he said that the government had been striving hard to uplift the poor and the downtrodden.
He flayed former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa for her failure to thank the voters of Andipatti constituency who elected her as MLA in her speech at a public meeting held in Coimbatore city recently.
Reacting to various petitions given to him and appeals of local people, the Minister said that bus facility to remote hill villages in this union would be introduced within 10 days.
“Sincere efforts will be taken to fulfil all the grievances of the people who handed over petitions to me,” he assured.
He also appealed for the conduct of more medical camps in the district to take health care to people in remote villages. The party will assist organisers to conduct such medical camp at village level.
Revenue Minister I. Periasamy, Minister Adi Dravida Welfare A. Thamizharasi, Special Representatives for Tamil Nadu in New Delhi P. Selvendran, MLAs N. Ramakrishnan and S. Lakshmanan and others spoke.
Doctors from Arvind Eye Hospital and Apollo Hospital checked the health condition of participants. Laptops were given to 87 rural school children.
Around 9,000 people from Kadamalaigundu and neighbouring villages took part in the camp.
Diabetes, eye care, scanning ECG, blood and urine tests were performed. Those in need of acute medical care were referred to the respective hospitals.
