BJP Tamil Nadu Head K. Annamalai while speaking at a public meeting in Vellore as part of his his En Mann En Makkal yatra, said that once BJP comes to power in the state, candidates from families who have never had a government job would be given priority.
Immediately, Sun News owned by the DMK family, put out a misleading social media post claiming that Annamalai promised to provide job one person in every household.
This news creative was shared by Kanagaraj, the Tamil Nadu State Secretary of Communist Party of India – Marxist (CPI-M) who peddled the usual rhetoric about Prime Minister Narendra Modi not fulfilling his promise of providing 2 crore jobs a year which hasn’t been the case.
This X post was reposted with quote by DMK Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan.
PTR as he is popularly known, said “For a comparison– the current number of government jobs in Tamil Nadu is around 9.5 lakh. What the BJP claims is that 2.397 crore government jobs will be offered in a state of about 7.6 crore people. That is, nearly 1 in 3 of the population, including children and pensioners! Or, will about half of those of working age go into government work?”
Reacting to this, BJP Tamil Nadu President K. Annamalai lashed out at the DMK Minister for distorting his speech and peddling misinformation using a creative published by DMK family-owned channel.
He said “It is not surprising that DMK’s family channel has distorted what I said, that eligible youths from families who have not yet got government jobs in Tamil Nadu will be given priority in government jobs. They run television to hide the facts from people.”
He trained his guns on DMK Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan saying “But how far a minister of a state is without a job is evident from the fact that he is commenting on a false news on DMK’s family television. It is surprising that Dr P Thiaga Rajan (PTR) who was removed as the Minister of Human Resource Department, did not know that the number of young people who apply for government jobs every year is about thirty lakhs.“
It is noteworthy to mention that PTR was stripped off his Finance and Human Resource Development portfolio after a purported audio of his implicated that MK Stalin’s family was swindling crores of rupees.
Annamalai said that the DMK Minister may find may find it burdensome to identify family members out of 30 lakh applicants who do not get government jobs and give them priority in employment, but that is real social justice. He said that the BJP will do this and not deceive pople like the DMK, which had promised to fill 3.5 lakh vacancies while not even filling even 10 percent of them.
Continuing his attack on PTR, Annamalai said “First of all, let PTR awaken the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission from the slumber which has not published any results, or conducted interviews or job appointment for more than one year. Before that, appoint suitable persons for the post of Chairman and Members of the Commission who have not been appointed for two years. You can comment on DMK’s fake news.”
தமிழகக் குடும்பங்களில் இதுவரை அரசு வேலை கிடைக்காத குடும்பங்களில் உள்ள தகுதியான இளைஞர்களுக்கு, அரசுப் பணிகளில் முன்னுரிமை வழங்கப்படும் என்று நான் கூறியதை திமுகவின் குடும்பத் தொலைக்காட்சி திரித்துச் சொல்லியிருப்பதில் ஆச்சரியமில்லை. அவர்கள் தொலைக்காட்சி நடத்துவதே மக்களிடம் இருந்து… https://t.co/go75AnRGFV pic.twitter.com/zYQhPcHEPH
— K.Annamalai (@annamalai_k) February 6, 2024
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