The DMDK, if elected to power, will implement a slew of measures aimed at ameliorating the sufferings of farmers. “I have in mind specific remedies for the current ills but will not reveal them right now,” said party founder Vijayakanth here on Thursday.
Addressing a meeting organised to disburse welfare measures, Mr. Vijayakanth alleged that the regimes of both the AIADMK and the DMK were riddled with corruption. They had been extending welfare measures and freebies “not from out of their pockets but from the people's money” but claimed as if they were doing them.
But the DMDK would not indulge in such gimmicks or resort to corrupt practices as could be seen from the fact that the party was doling out welfare measures to the marginalised sections and the needy from its funds only, Mr. Vijayakanth said.
On the measures aimed at solving farmers' woes, Mr. Vijayakanth said he wanted to keep the solutions up his sleeves as Chief Minister Jayalalithaa “will usurp and copy them claiming that they had formulated themselves,”
He exhorted the public to elect his party to power after which he would implement the farmer-friendly measures that would ensure a dawn to their hopes and aspirations.
Mr. Vijayakanth gave away Rs. 25 lakh worth welfare measures, mostly in the form of farm implements, to farmers on the occasion.
