Palaniswami accuses DMK government of providing ‘poor-quality’ yarn to cooperative mills

AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami connected Thursday (December 4, 2025) criticised the DMK authorities for, what helium called, the proviso of poor-quality yarn to cooperative handloom and powerloom mils. 

Flagging the reported complaints of the mills, Mr. Palaniswami, successful a statement, said specified yarn had been fixed to the mills for the intent of producing sarees and dhotis for the government’s strategy of organisation of escaped dhotis and sarees adjacent year. He besides claimed that successful an “unprecedented” way, the authorities had ordered the instrumentality of 4 lakh dhotis to handloom mills and 13 lakh dhotis to powerloom mills connected the crushed that determination was a alteration successful the prime of yarn.

By making the mills responsible, the DMK authorities was trying to deflect blasted for the Handlooms department’s enactment of supplying “poor-quality” yarn. Such a people of enactment was making the mills not lone to carnivore fiscal losses continuously but besides to go inoperative gradually, Mr. Palaniswami contended, urging the authorities to bid a re-check of the prime of each the dhotis.