The DMK government under Chief Minister MK Stalin has completed 127 days as on September 11, 2021. While the party and its sympathizers in the media have been portraying as if honey and milk are flowing in the streets of Tamil Nadu, here is what they don’t tell you.
1. The Many U-Turns
– Just a day after taking oath as Chief Minister, MK Stalin imposed a full lockdown, something that he was against just a week before the results, for a period of 14 days.
– The DMK in its manifesto had promised to reduce petrol and diesel prices by ₹5 and ₹4 respectively. After much grilling, it was announced that the price of petrol would be reduced by ₹3. Nothing has been on diesel prices. When Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan was asked in a press meet about whether the government will reduce fuel prices, he said “Have we put any date on fulfilling the promise?”
– The DMK had promised that it would bring back the old pension scheme for state government employees once it comes to power. However, Tamil Nadu Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan told the Assembly that a decision could not be taken on the implementation of the old pension scheme as the state’s financial situation was dire and that the government will go bankrupt if it gives everything away for free to everyone.
2. The Shameless Lies
– CM Stalin and his son MLA Udhayanidhi Stalin had campaigned across Tamil Nadu during elections saying that the first signature Stalin would put as Chief Minister was to ban NEET in the state. However, students from across Tamil Nadu from different schooling background appeared for the exam on September 12, 2021. The issue of NEET is no more in the hands of the legislature. It is the Supreme Court which has mandated NEET be held as a single entrance exam for medical admissions.
– DMK and its ally MLAs led by MK Stalin in the Assembly passed a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 (CAA) saying it is not in tune with the secular principles prescribed by the Constitution. However, the CAA has nothing to do with Indian Muslims and is applicable only for those non-Muslim communities who had fled Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan due to religious persecution.
– Another resolution moved by DMK MLAs was against the farmer empowerment laws enacted by the Centre. This too is humbug as Tamil Nadu already had contract farming in place with a legislation enacted during the Edappadi K Palaniswami government.
3. Attack On Hindu Faith
– Another humbug in the list of humbugs done by the DMK government is the ‘All Castes Can Become Priests’ scheme and the ‘Tamil Archana’ initiative. Members of all castes are already priests in different temples and Tamil hymns are daily sung in all temples. There are temple where as per Agama rules, the temple priest should belong to a particular community. For example, only Sivachariyars trained in Agamas can become priests in temples like Mylapore Kapaleeswarar Temple, Thanjavur Brihadeeswarar Temple, Malaikottai Thaayumanaswamy Temple, etc. By allowing, unqualified and untrained priests in such temples is an attack on the Hindu faith.
– The DMK government is also planning to melt all gold jewelry donated devotees and use them supposedly for ‘development’ schemes. How about taking the money from Mosques and Churches too Mr. Stalin?
– DMK cadres put up a stage right in front of a Perumal Temple in Chennai’s Royapettah area and distributed chicken and mutton biryani to people on the occasion of Karunanidhi’s birth anniversary. DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran and Thousand Lights MLA Ezhilan Naganathan presided over the biryani distribution event.
4. Law & Order
– An ‘Amma Unavagam’ located in J.J Nagar near Maduravoyal, Chennai was attacked by DMK goons. Men belonging to the DMK tore down the board with title ‘Amma Unavagam’ and also broke the pictures of the late AIADMK supremo.
– DMK goons in Karur district ransacked a shop belonging to an AIADMK cadre causing extensive damage to the property along with a person getting injured seriously.
– Over 60 families have been rendered homeless in Thiruvottriyur due to atrocities committed by DMK cadres in the area.
– A bakery owned by AIADMK cadre in Vadippatti in Madurai district was completely smashed to smithereens. Police arrested 4 persons including a DMK cadre named Ashok.
– A hygiene worker belonging to Royapuram, Chennai was attacked by a DMK office bearer.
5. Land Grabs
– A piece of government land in Melmonavur village of Vellore district was encroached by a DMK cadre and was later reclaimed following complaints by locals.
– A complaint has been lodged against a DMK office bearer in Tirupattur district for usurping land by placing a generator in the premises of Tirupattur Lion’s Club.
6. Other Epic Failures
– As soon as DMK came to power, power cuts have become rampant across Tamil Nadu. Electricity Minister Senthil Balaji has been blaming squirrels and snakes for the power outage.
– The government had also announced free travel for women in state transport, a department that is already ailing and struggling to meet finances. Here too, free travel has been allowed only in select buses which has less frequency. On top of that, the ticket fares in normal buses have gone up.
7. The Foul-Mouthed Finance Minister
– Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan has been making news for matter unrelated to his portfolios. While many hail Finance Minister PTR for presenting a ‘white paper’ on Tamil Nadu’s finances, it was nothing but a ‘Yellow Envelope’. Instead of working on the state’s finances, he has been busy picking fights and blocking people on Twitter apart from indulging in singing praises about himself and his lineage.
– He stooped to a new low unbecoming of the position he holds by making disgusting remarks while engaging with a netizen online. He said “Dude… I crap bigger than you.” and went on to call the netizen who took a jibe at him as a ‘scum’, ‘cultist’ and ‘minion’.
– He had unleashed abuses and made personal attacks on Coimbatore South BJP MLA Vanathi Srinivasan.
– Before that, he had picked fight with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev over the latter’s demand for freeing temples from state control. This had led to spat with two other public personalities namely former Infosys director Mohandas Pai and The Hindu’s Malini Parthasarathy.
Well, it’s just been 129 days. We’ve more 4.5 years to go.
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