AIADMK regime will continue: CM

‘Critics who said it won’t last 10 days have been proved wrong’

Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Tuesday said the AIADMK government [led by him] had completed over 700 days, proving the critics wrong who said that it would not even survive 10 days.

“It completed 100 days and is successfully implementing welfare schemes for over 700 days. It will go on completing more days and people know who is zero and what is zero,” he said, participating in the debate on the Governor’s address in the Assembly. He was responding to the remark by Opposition leader M.K. Stalin on Monday who said there was ‘zero governance’ in Tamil Nadu.

Recalling Mr. Stalin’s accusation that the Governor’s address was beating around the bush instead of providing anything concrete, the Chief Minister said Mr. Stalin’s comments were akin to the attempt made by five visually challenged persons to figure out an elephant. “If you do not read anything carefully, you will assume your own opinion. This has happened in the case of the Opposition leader,” he said.

‘A model State’

Mr. Palaniswami contended that Tamil Nadu had become a model State for others, evident in the Sustainable Development Goal Index of Niti Ayog. The State had been fulfilling various goals set by the United Nations to be achieved by 2030.

He said between 2017 and 2019 the government made 259 suo motu announcements and orders had been issued for the implementation of 221 schemes. “We have completed 38 works and 191 works are progressing. Another 30 projects are waiting for orders,” he said.