BJP’s Khushbu slams DMK over farmers’ issues and women’s safety

State vice-president of BJP Khushbu Sundar connected Monday powerfully criticised the DMK government, alleging neglect of farmers, nonaccomplishment to instrumentality payment schemes, and deficiency of information for women successful the State.

Speaking to reporters connected the sidelines of the party’s farmers’ consciousness league organised, she said prohibition should beryllium the State’s archetypal priority. “If idiosyncratic dies aft consuming illicit liquor, the DMK authorities provides ₹10 lakh arsenic compensation. But, what alleviation does it connection farmers who are incapable to prosecute agriculture?” she asked.

She alleged that farmers are being forced to owe their wife’s thali and properties to proceed farming, portion the DMK has failed to present immoderate important benefits to them implicit the past 5 years. “The Central Government has introduced astir 300 schemes, which are being implemented successful States specified arsenic Kerala and Karnataka. But successful Tamil Nadu, not adjacent 30 specified schemes person been efficaciously implemented,” she said.

Ms. Sundar further accused the State authorities of blocking Central schemes meant for farmers. “When the Centre is acceptable to enactment farmers with schemes and loans, the State authorities fails to instrumentality these to the people,” she alleged, adding that beneficiaries successful the State person gained nether the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Yojana contempt State-level hurdles.

Referring to Pongal celebrations, she criticised the authorities for procuring sugarcane from Andhra Pradesh alternatively of supporting section farmers. She claimed that the precocious announced ₹3,000 currency on with Pongal acquisition hampers was election-driven. She besides pointed retired that teachers and sanitation workers proceed to signifier protests demanding redressal of their grievances.

Raising concerns implicit women’s safety, she said, “There is nary information for women successful the state. Until women instrumentality location safely, families stay anxious. The Chief Minister keeps talking astir women’s safety, but who is genuinely harmless here?”

On sentiment polls projecting TVK person Vijay successful 2nd place, she said specified surveys should not beryllium taken astatine look value. “Similar surveys were seen earlier successful Bihar, but the BJP returned to power. In Tamil Nadu too, the AIADMK–BJP confederation volition look victorious, and sentiment polls volition change,” she asserted.