AIADMK will promise but won't deliver, says DMK's Kanimozhi

Tiruvallur: DMK deputy general secretary Kanimozhi on Tuesday said the opposition AIADMK will make many promises to lure voters but will not deliver.

That party, she said, had promised free mobile phones in the past but had not given them to anyone.

"The AIADMK promised mobile phones (in 2016), but none have received it. But our leader M Karunanidhi promised television sets to the people and implemented the scheme upon coming to power," she said addressing a poll campaign here in support of party candidate V G Rajendran for the April 23 election.


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Unlike that party, the DMK has kept up its assurances made in the run-up to the 2021 Assembly election and hence was now facing the people with confidence, she claimed.

DMK president and Chief Minister M K Stalin had unveiled several welfare initiatives in the party's election manifesto for the benefit of the people, and this included providing electric pump sets without meters to 20 lakh farmers under the free power scheme to support the irrigation needs of the ryots.

The DMK MP claimed that during the previous AIADMK regime, women felt unsafe and were unable to report crimes against them at the police stations.

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She flayed the Centre for "ignoring" Tamil Nadu, especially in denying funds due for the state and in not providing budgetary allocation for projects.