COIMBATORE: AIADMK interim general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday accused Tamil Nadu police of functioning like district units of the DMK. Speaking in a public meeting in Erode East constituency on Thursday, he also accused the Election Commission of not keenly monitoring the by-election process.
“DMK is distributing cash for votes. I will advise you (voters) to accept the money, because it is your money which DMK has looted. But you cast your votes to AIADMK,” he said, and appealed to voters to DMK a lesson for the two years of misgovernance.
Charging that there is no governance in the state in the last 21 months, Palaniswami said, “The DMK government has been inaugurating schemes and development projects implemented by AIADMK rule,” adding that Stalin did not fulfil his poll promises.
On the government’s decision to install a pen statue in memory of former CM M Karunanidhi in the Marina waters, Palaniswami said it was a wasteful expenditure of taxpayers’ money.