Naam Tamilar Katchi’s chief coordinator Seeman spoke to reporters in Sivagangai. At that time, he said, “The news about prisoners escaping from Theni jail is only laughable. It cannot be said that the arrest of former minister Anbil Mahesh was wrong. Because in previous governments too, there have been corruption allegations.
Therefore, the facts behind it will come out only through department-level investigations. Bribery is not only about giving money. Gold for the mangalsutra, wedding gifts, free cylinders, and similar items distributed from government funds for elections are also a kind of ‘verbal bribery.’
It is the government's duty to create job opportunities for unemployed graduates; giving a monthly allowance of Rs. 4000 is nothing but a bribe.
Moreover, they have given freebies in sectors like bus transport, which can generate revenue for the government. That will only increase the financial burden on the government, won’t it? In the Legislative Assembly, Minister Aadhav Arjuna said to Opposition Leader Udhayanidhi Stalin that the DMK had received Rs. 9,000 crore in funds from Martin. Why did he give it? Why did he take it? No one in the House raised that question. For what purpose are large sums received from businessmen being taken and given? Is there an answer to this?
Reducing the tax on aviation fuel (VAT) brings no benefit to ordinary people. It only becomes profitable for monopoly private companies. But the prices of essential goods such as rice, pulses, milk, and sugar, as well as electricity charges, have risen many times over, increasing the burden on the people. The government is not concerned about this. At the same time, by neglecting local Aavin milk production and relying on milk companies from other states, a situation has arisen in which the government’s own revenue sources are being completely shut down.
During the last 60 years of Dravidian rule, instead of investing in power generation, interest was shown only in buying electricity from outside at a higher price. The reason is that when buying from outside rather than producing it, commissions change hands.
When private investment is made in projects like Adani’s solar power parks, why shouldn’t the Tamil Nadu government borrow if necessary and invest in power generation itself? If it had invested in generation, the state would have become a power-surplus state.
But instead of doing that, they have relied on procurement for commissions. They will buy electricity at Rs. 35 and recover that amount from the people through tariffs. Whether it is a party from DMK to TVK, the only things that change in their promises are the amounts and the number of cylinders; there is no change in the basic style of governance.
He has noted that since the new parties, like the old Dravidian parties, are also pursuing the same freebie politics, only the people and names are changing here, and there has been no real alternative politics for the people.