“As the budget session is about to begin, I strongly condemn the cowardly T.V.K. government, which lacked the courage to face the Leader of the Opposition in the House and instead unleashed the police to arrest him,” said D.M.K. General Secretary and former Minister Durai Murugan, registering his protest.
Regarding this, he further said, “The government, which did not open its mouth yesterday about the demands raised by the party for farmers in Thanjavur, trembled in fear after seeing the surge of that protest and has arrested the Leader of the Opposition, a key pillar of democracy, on a baseless false case. This is the height of lawlessness. A very grave murder of democracy.
The rogue TVK government has, out of fear and trembling over the questions the Leader of the Opposition is set to raise in the Assembly session beginning tomorrow—questions about the deteriorating law and order under Chief Minister Vijay’s “Apprentice” rule, electricity bill complaints troubling people across the state, the antics of ministers who have no clue, oppressive measures reflecting the arrogance of “say ‘yes’ and you go to jail,” TVK functionaries getting caught one after another in sexual cases, and above all the Chief Minister’s silence and indifference on the Cauvery issue that brings tears to the eyes of Delta farmers—fabricated a claim that he said something he did not say in Thanjavur, filed an FIR on the basis of a made-up allegation, and hurriedly arrested him, even in defiance of the High Court’s instructions.
They have unleashed this lawlessness to stage the chaos of tyrannical rule. As the height of fascism, Chief Minister Vijay has arrested our opposition leader on false charges, and now, perhaps forgetting in his “intoxication of power” that what he is running is a support-based government with parties borrowed from the DMK alliance, he is playing the flute.
Chief Minister Vijay cannot threaten the DMK like this. He cannot intimidate our opposition leader either. We will face this too, and we will face anything. Even if he does not answer in the Legislative Assembly, this government must answer to the people,” he said.
