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AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami said connected Monday (November 24, 2025) that his enactment had ne'er compromised connected the payment of farmers and had protested portion being successful powerfulness arsenic good arsenic successful the opposition.
The erstwhile Chief Minister addressed the media astatine the Salem airdrome connected Monday evening.
Responding to Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s station connected societal media level X connected Monday, Mr. Palaniswami said officials of the Department of Agriculture knew the grade of country nether ‘Kuruvai’ cultivation and the quantum of paddy that would beryllium harvested. Had the paddy been procured instantly done nonstop paddy procurement centres, the nutrient would not person been damaged successful the rain. Farmers were affected by the negligence connected the portion of the DMK government, helium said.
While visiting farmers successful the delta region, farmers told him that for 15 days, paddy was not procured, and the procured paddy was not sent to the godowns from the procurement centres. Adequate manpower for procuring the paddy and lorries for transporting it was not disposable owing to the non-payment of transport charges, helium said. In the past 4 years of DMK rule, the ‘Kuruvai’ farmers were not included successful the harvest security schemes. “When the farmers were affected, I went to the delta portion and met them. But the Chief Minister went to ticker a film,” the Leader of the Opposition recalled.
Claiming that the AIADMK would ne'er compromise connected farmers’ issues, Mr. Palaniswami said, “For the past 50 years I person been farming. But the DMK is an anti-farmer party. While Mr. Stalin was the Deputy Chief Minister, an MoU was signed for the extraction of methane successful the delta region. But the AIADMK government declared the delta portion a protected agriculture zone”. When the AIADMK was successful power, compensation was fixed to farmers doubly successful a twelvemonth portion they were affected. The State authorities did not uncover wherefore the Union authorities had rejected the connection to increase the bounds of moisture contented successful the procured paddy. The 3 workplace laws (which were scrapped by the Union authorities successful 2021) would person affected lone farmers successful northbound Indian States due to the fact that the ‘mandi’ conception prevails there. The 3 laws would person been beneficial to Tamil Nadu. Mr. Stalin did not cognize what these laws were, Mr. Palaniswami alleged.
Replying to the disapproval of Minister for Natural Resources S. Regupathy against him implicit the assignment of a regular Director-General of Police, Mr. Palaniswami said that adjacent aft UPSC sent 3 names, the Tamil Nadu authorities was yet to act. The DMK did not favour the 3 names, helium said.
Mr. Palaniswami said that successful each Assembly constituency has astatine slightest 20,000 to 40,000 fake, dead, and double-entry voters. Using them, the DMK had won successful the elections truthful far. Hence, the enactment opposed the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls. He alleged that DMK workers had allegedly signed connected the enumeration forms connected behalf of residents of apartments. The AIADMK lodged a ailment with the Election Commission of India and ECI officials were expected to sojourn the State successful a mates of days to inquire into allegations, Mr. Palaniswami added.
