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AIADMK Deputy Leader of the Opposition R.B. Udhayakumar, successful the State Assembly connected Friday, flagged the emergence successful terms of indispensable commodities and sought to cognize wherefore the “Pongal prize” was conscionable ₹3,000, erstwhile Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin had demanded that ₹5,000 beryllium distributed for Pongal during the AIADMK’s tenure.
Mr. Udhayakumar said: “They conscionable added ₹100/year and gave ₹3,000 for Pongal [this year].”
He besides questioned whether laptops were being distributed to assemblage students successful presumption of the upcoming Assembly election.
Responding to the allegations of terms rise, Transport Minister S.S. Sivasankar asked Mr. Udhayakumar whether the AIADMK authorities had addressed the issue. Minister for Food and Civil Supplies R. Sakkarapani said everyone understood however the prime of atom improved dramatically.
PWD Minister E.V. Velu pointed retired that the per capita income had increased. “An summation successful per capita income is often accompanied by summation successful prices. The wide income of a household has increased,” helium said.
In his response, Mr. Udhayakumar said: “He is saying that the people’s buying powerfulness has increased. What I americium saying is that the terms of indispensable goods has increased. During Amma’s administration, whenever determination was a emergence successful price, a abstracted money of ₹100 crore was created to stabilise the prices.” Minister for Co-operatives K.R. Periyakaruppan added that the money was successful usage adjacent today.
‘Increasing crimes’
Mr. Udhayakumar further alleged that the increasing fig of crimes showed that the authorities was not maintaining instrumentality and bid successful the State.
Responding to the criticism, Mr. Sivasankar said the erstwhile AIADMK authorities had indulged successful “State-sponsored terror” erstwhile it killed 18 radical successful Thoothukudi. He added that the crimes reported successful the State occurred mostly owed to idiosyncratic enmity.
Law Minister S. Regupathy said: “He is quoting reports from the media. Tamil Nadu is the lone State that is reporting less incidents of transgression successful India.”
He further said that portion the Governor’s code mentioned the organisation of laptops to 10 lakh students, the students successful Tamil Nadu had mislaid galore opportunities successful artificial quality and accusation exertion successful the past four-and-a-half years.
Laptop distribution
“The laptops are being distributed astatine the fag extremity of the government, and wherefore are students who are graduating from assemblage being fixed laptops? What was the contented successful continuing the scheme?” helium asked.
Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu said, “We announced the strategy for students who were already successful their last year. But, from adjacent year, the rhythm would beryllium corrected and laptops would beryllium fixed to first-year students. Only for this twelvemonth person we distributed them to final-year students truthful arsenic not to disappoint them.”
