Amid the controversy sparked by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s remark about PMK founder Dr. S. Ramadoss—calling him someone with “no other work” and accusing him of issuing daily statements—the comment has drawn severe condemnation and widespread protests from PMK cadres across the state for the past two days. Now, the DMK Minister for HR & CE P. K Sekar Babu made a provocative statement about opposition leader and AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami, saying, “He has no work, so he is issuing such statements,” has created a stir in politics.
During a media interaction on 28 November 2024 in Chennai, reporters questioned the AIADMK’s Edappadi K. Palaniswami (EPS) criticism directed at DMK’s focus on celebrations while rain alerts were issued. In response, DMK’s HR&CE Minister P.K. Sekar Babu addressed the issue, saying, “You would have seen today’s event, our party’s Youth Wing Secretary and my dear brother Udhayanidhi Stalin, in his birthday message, requested that there should be no banners or extravagance. Help the poor and those below the poverty line, funding education, aiding differently abled people, orphanages, and transgenders. In line with this, today we conducted free weddings, spending one lakh per couple and a total of 21 lakhs on these marriages, including food. How can this be seen as luxury?”
He continued, “If the onlookers’ eyes have a problem, what can we do? Everything looks yellow for the eyes with jaundice. To say it in our leader’s style, ‘He has no work, so he is issuing such statements.'”
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