DMK president M.K. Stalin on Monday accused the ruling AIADMK government of failing to implement several promises it had made in its party manifestos released in the run up to the 2011 and 2016 Assembly elections.
Terming Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s claim that the AIADMK government had implemented all its poll promises as a ‘Himalayan lie’, Mr. Stalin claimed speaking whimsically was Mr. Palaniswami’s wont. It was habitual for the Chief Minister to keep changing his stance to suit the situation, he alleged at an ‘Ungal Thoguthiyil Stalin,’ (Stalin in your constituency) poll outreach meet at Oonaiyur village near Tirumayam in Pudukottai district.
Recalling some of the promises made by the AIADMK in its 2011 manifesto, Mr. Stalin said the present regime had neither ushered in the second green revolution nor doubled the income of the farmers as promised. Likewise, it had not kept its promise of distributing farm equipment and drip irrigation systems for all farmers…