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AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami connected Sunday said the DMK, aft coming to power, had stopped the escaped laptop strategy for students introduced by the erstwhile AIADMK government, and announced its resumption for assemblage students conscionable months earlier the elections, lone with the volition of securing their votes.
Mr. Palaniswami was addressing workers of the AIADMK and its confederation partners astatine Thiruporur successful Chengalpattu district, arsenic portion of his State-wide Makkalai Kaappom, Thamizhagathai Meetpom campaign.
The AIADMK authorities had provided escaped laptops to astir 52 lakh students and allocated ₹7,350 crore for the scheme, which the DMK authorities stopped aft coming to powerfulness successful 2021, helium alleged.
“Now, with elections approaching, the DMK authorities has promised to administer laptops to students. It is simply a blatant prevarication and effort to get their votes. The AIADMK volition resume the escaped laptop strategy for the payment of students if voted to powerfulness successful 2026,” helium said.
Mr. Palaniswami besides accused Chief Minister M.K. Stalin of spreading misinformation that the agrarian jobs strategy was being “diluted”. According to him, the Centre had accrued the guaranteed employment from 100 days (under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) to 125 days (now nether the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission - Gramin), based connected the AIADMK’s demand.
He further alleged that the DMK authorities had not revised wages for workers nether the scheme. He said his enactment would instrumentality steps to summation the fig of guaranteed moving days from 125 to 150 if voted to power.
Listing respective payment measures implemented by the erstwhile AIADMK government, Mr. Palaniswami said it had efficaciously managed the State’s system during the COVID-19 period, adjacent erstwhile determination were nary taxation revenues for astir a twelvemonth owed to pandemic-induced lockdowns.
He besides demanded the State authorities disburse ₹5,000 successful currency to each ration paper holder arsenic a Pongal gift. He promised if voted to power, his enactment would supply a subsidy of ₹25,000 to 5 lakh women to acquisition two-wheelers, summation the lean-period currency assistance for fishermen, and resume matrimony assistance and gold-for-thali schemes for women.
