It was a public-meeting-turned-political rally that whipped up an electrifying pre-election euphoria here as the DMDK leaders took the center-stage to lash out at the AIADMK, DMK and the PMK, on Saturday night.
Pitching 2016 as a new dawn that would ring in a DMDK rule, the party’s speaker and wife of the party leader, Premalatha, declared that the DMDK would contest in all five Assembly constituencies of Dharmapuri district.
Ms.Premalatha said the Chief Minister’s announcements under Rule 110 was a prelude to fooling people, as nobody knew the status of those announcements.
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“Freebies were used to perpetuate poverty. In the absence of poverty, there was no need for freebies,” she reminded.
Not sparing the PMK on its own political turf, Ms.Premalatha, lashed out at the party as being part of the “corrupt club” that already housed the AIADMK, and the DMK.
According to her, the CBI summons on the PMK leader testified to this.
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Political enactment
Equally hitting out at Stalin’s campaign, Ms.Premalatha called it a political enactment.
Conjuring up an image of the DMDK as one big family, Ms. Premalatha drew the roots of the DMDK from the fan clubs of Vijayakant.
“The ‘formula’ of fighting it alone as a party was evolved by the DMDK. If you are ready, we would contest in each of 234 constituencies.”
In a brief speech, Mr. Vijayakant focussed on Jayalalithaa’s Kodanadu sojourn and the escalating prices of essential commodities.
The DMDK leader lashed out at AIADMK, DMK, and the PMK