Last Updated: February 14, 2023, 23:16 IST
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin (ANI Photo)
Stalin, when asked on AIADMK interim chief K Palaniswami’s allegation in his Erode bypoll campaign that the DMK won polls only by making false promises, he mocked at the Leader of Opposition.
DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday asserted that 85 per cent of assurances made to the people by his party ahead of the 2021 Assembly election has been fulfilled.
Stalin, when asked on AIADMK interim chief K Palaniswami’s allegation in his Erode bypoll campaign that the DMK won polls only by making false promises, he mocked at the Leader of Opposition.
It was the same Palaniswami, when he was the Chief Minister (2018) uttered a lie that he came to know of police firing in Thoothukudi only after watching television. It was Palaniswami who had ordered police firing and it is natural that such a leader could only come up with such false accusations, Stalin said.
Not only the electoral promises have been honoured, several other schemes not declared ahead of polls are also being implemented, he said answering questions in his ‘Ungalil Oruvan’ (One among you) series.
The Chief Minister referred to the Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar Higher Education Assurance Pudhumai Penn Scheme and underscored that it was not part of the election manifesto and it is being implemented. A couple of schemes –that are part of the election manifesto– are pending and these would be implemented in about a year, he said. “I will for sure implement it.” Fare-free travel in town buses for women, a cut in the price of State-run Aavin milk are among the promises that have already been fulfilled.
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