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