Viluppuram: “When meeting Stalin directly, Chief Minister Vijay reportedly said ‘I am sorry’ for speaking harshly during the election campaign. Likewise, it would be more appropriate for Vijay to say ‘I am sorry’ for his body-language gesture by convening a special assembly session,” said Jawahirullah, leader of the Manithaneya Makkal Katchi.
Speaking to reporters in Viluppuram today, he said: “The TVK, which came to power claiming that Tamil Nadu’s treasury had been emptied, has announced that it will build a new Secretariat in Pattinapakkam.
It may be an area near Chief Minister Vijay’s house. But the livelihoods of fishermen will be affected. Traffic congestion will increase significantly. Therefore, the TVK government should abandon this project.
The incident over the last two days in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly has turned out to be very bad. In a manner that demeans former Chief Minister Stalin, Chief Minister Vijay has carried out propaganda through body language with malice. Even on stage, one should speak decently. His speech in the Assembly in a third-rate, fourth-rate manner is condemnable. The ministers are also speaking blatant lies.
Stalin was arrested under the notorious MISA law brought in by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and was subjected to severe torture in prison. I went and looked in the library of the Legislative Assembly. To investigate the atrocities that took place during the Emergency, the report of the commission headed by Judge Ismail states how Stalin was tortured in prison. The then lawyer Chandru has also mentioned it.
It is strongly condemnable that the Chief Minister and Ministers, who have taken an oath under the Constitution, have spoken falsely about history, as if hiding a whole pumpkin in a pile of rice.
A government should not act out of malice. There was a heated debate in the Legislative Assembly. It was not right to belittle former Chief Minister Stalin through body-language gestures. When he met Stalin in person, Chief Minister Vijay reportedly said, “I am sorry” for speaking harshly during the election campaign. Likewise, it would be appropriate for Vijay to convene a special session of the Legislative Assembly and say, “I am sorry” for his body-language gesture as an act of atonement.
In the by-elections to be held in the Madurantakam and Dharapuram constituencies in Tamil Nadu and in Thattanchavady in Puducherry, the Manithaneya Makkal Katchi supports the DMK. We will work on the ground for the victory of DMK candidates. The people must teach a lesson to the TVK, which has not governed well through welfare schemes for the people.
The BJP-led central government is bringing in the census with the aim of indirectly introducing the National Population Register and the National Register of Citizens. The Tamil Nadu government should not accept this. Otherwise, a protest will be held.
In order to prevent the BJP government from coming to power indirectly, the two Communist parties that supported the TVK government have not joined the secular social justice victory alliance. P. Shanmugam and M. Veerapandian have stated that they cannot be in agreement with any anti-people actions that the TVK government may undertake. This alliance, which has been put together like a drama, will not last long.
At a time when it is being said that the BJP government is threatening Congress senior leader Rahul Gandhi and others through the Enforcement Directorate, what is the Tamil Nadu Congress’s response to Chief Minister Vijay reading out in the Assembly the report submitted by the Enforcement Directorate in court?
Therefore, the new alliance will end in failure. The People’s Welfare Alliance, which was launched with ideological principles, could not sustain itself. The new alliance will fare even worse than this.
If support is sought from the DMK for the protest to be held on September 12 condemning Chief Minister Vijay, who criticized Stalin through body language in the Legislative Assembly, we will participate.
Chief Minister Vijay, who does not follow the conventions of the Legislative Assembly, is secretly traveling to London.
In the parliaments of Malaysia and Sri Lanka, Tamils speak in Tamil without mixing in English. But in Tamil Nadu, the land of Tamil’s birth, the Chief Minister and ministers speak in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly without pronouncing Tamil properly and with unnecessary mixing of English, raising concerns about whether Tamil is living or declining,” said Jawahirullah.
