DMK president M.K. Stalin on Friday said Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami “hurriedly” announced the waiver of farm loans obtained from cooperative societies as the DMK had already promised to waive the amount on returning to power.
“It is an announcement made by the Chief Minister with an eye on the forthcoming Assembly election,” he said at a meeting organised in Pattaandivilai, near Nattaaththi, in the Srivaikundam Assembly constituency on Friday evening.
According to him, the ruling AIADMK had understood that its government would come to an end in three months, and it was doing everything possible to revive the sagging electoral prospects, but in vain. Similarly, the Chief Minister, like the “flash of light before death”, had made an announcement in the Assembly about the waiver of cooperative society loans, he said.
“The Chief Minister, who refused to do it (loan waiver) when the farmers were appealing to him and even when the court told him, has made the…