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DMK person and Member of Parliament (South Chennai) Thamizhachi Thangapandian connected Monday said that the 2026 Assembly predetermination is simply a precise antithetic one. “It is not simply an predetermination betwixt 2 determination parties. It is simply a conflict betwixt secularism and polarisation. The Secular Progressive Alliance, led by the DMK, stands for the rights of the Tamils, our taste rights, our national rights. Whereas the NDA is spurred connected by the ideals of the BJP,” she said.
The DMK, she said, was precise comfy and assured portion facing the mandate. “We are facing the radical with 3 main focuses, electoral promises made and kept, enactment carried retired during the past 5 years, and the imaginativeness connection made by Chief Minister M. K. Stalin. I don’t deliberation immoderate different main curate has done specified groundwork oregon has interacted with the nationalist arsenic helium has done,” she added during an enactment with journalists astatine The Hindu office.
To a question connected whether the BJP going with the AIADMK this clip is an vantage for the DMK, Ms. Thangapandian said it was so an vantage for her party. “The AIADMK stands exposed earlier the radical of the State by pledging the rights of the radical to the BJP. We were some Dravidian parties. With this, we person emerged arsenic the solitary dependable against the BJP, whose main docket seems to beryllium to bash distant with each the determination parties. Very fewer voices of dissent are holding ground. In immoderate democracy, voices are precise important,” she opined.
Similarly, she besides underscored however the DMK stood arsenic a vocal and beardown dependable for upholding the rights of States successful a national structure.
To a question connected concerns of the radical including cause menace and caste-related violence, peculiarly successful the confederate districts, and entree to higher education, Ms. Thangapandian said that it was a genuine interest and Mr. Stalin was alert of it and had been advising the constabulary to guarantee active, and disposable policing successful each areas successful the State.
Caste-based violence
On the instances of caste-related violence, she said there’s nary uncertainty that specified incidents should not person happened astatine all. “We person ne'er shielded distant from our responsibilities erstwhile specified incidents happen. We person ever taken action. Our confederation partners excessively person been apprising the Chief Minister of specified happenings. We are taking steps to marque the younger procreation aware,” she added.
On the concerns pertaining to higher education, she explained that the enrolment rates, particularly of women, person really accrued during the past 5 years.
Asked astir the introduction of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) and the interaction of the TVK, she said that the histrion (Mr. Vijay) has taken random points from ideologies of different governmental parties and enactment them each together. “It each seems truthful scripted. No doubt, helium has a ample instrumentality base. We person seen galore actors having specified a instrumentality following, but volition they present the ballot for him? We are not considering him arsenic a superior contender.”
On wherefore the DMK has reduced the fig of seats allotted to its allies, Ms. Thangapandian said that caller entrants into the confederation excessively had to beryllium fixed seats.
“Mr. Stalin had a Himalayan task earlier him, which helium has managed precise good contempt immoderate friction successful immoderate areas. When you are warring against divisive forces, you don’t privation to permission immoderate chromatic unturned to marque definite you signifier a steering secular alliance.”
Barrier to entry
On a query astir the precocious costs of warring elections dissuading youngsters from coming forward, she responded: “I utilized to mull implicit this: wherefore is Gen Z is truthful reluctant to person captious governmental thinking. Why don’t they person the courageousness to instrumentality the plunge into politics. In bid to interruption those fears, DMK has been perpetually moving with them. This time, we person 125 graduates, 17 engineers, 15 doctors, 29 advocates, 7 Ph.D holders and adjacent a 26-year-old candidate; and 60 caller faces. All these are strategies to assistance youngsters trial the waters. We springiness them the required space. I instrumentality this accidental to entreaty to youngsters to beryllium politically conscious, sift done the ideologies, and not beryllium successful the assemblage but get down and play the game.”
She added that the DMK holds pridefulness for immoderate youngster with anticipation to marque it large successful politics. “If you enactment hard and are sincere, you volition decidedly onshore the berth. If you look astatine the way grounds of the party, you tin spot radical get their owed designation for their work.”
