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Joining contented with Chief Minister M.K. Stalin implicit his reported contention connected Katchatheevu contented hours earlier successful Ramanathapuram district, AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami connected Friday (October 3, 2025) charged that the former, by projecting the AIADMK arsenic being uninterested successful retrieving the islet successful the interests of fishermen, was indulging successful “drama and deception”.
History establishes that the past DMK authorities successful 1974 nether Chief Ministership of M. Karunanidhi failed to forestall the Congress authorities astatine the Centre from handing implicit the land “on a platter” to Sri Lanka. The AIADMK led by precocious Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, connected the different hand, had filed a lawsuit earlier the Supreme Court connected the contented (in 2008) calling for retrieval of the island, Mr. Palaniswami said, during his roadworthy amusement astatine Palacode successful Dharmapuri district.
The radical of the State, helium said, volition not hide that the DMK, portion enjoying powerfulness for 11 years astatine the Centre, failed to instrumentality up cudgels for the fishermen successful struggle. “Don’t presume you tin get distant by levelling specified charges with an oculus connected ballot bank. The AIADMK is keeping a changeless ticker connected immoderate you talk and volition springiness a befitting response,” Mr. Palaniswami said.
The AIADMK volition stay focussed connected people’s welfare, dissimilar Mr. Stalin’s DMK government, which, helium claimed, was intent connected perpetuating household rule. Mr. Palaniswami, portion acknowledging the value of Mr. Stalin’s contiguous sojourn to Karur aft the stampede to console the families of 41 victims questioned the second for not having responded the aforesaid mode aft the Kallakurichi hooch calamity that had claimed 68 lives of mediocre people, mostly those belonging to Scheduled Caste groups.
The DMK, Mr. Palaniswami said, was unfit to remark connected the ideology of AIADMK successful the discourse of its confederation with the BJP. Seeking to buttress his statement, the AIADMK wide caput displayed a poster depicting Mr. Karunanidhi and erstwhile Union Minister Murasoli Maran sitting connected either sides of the past Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and unneurotic adjusting the mike successful beforehand from some sides.
Further, the BJP and AIADMK were connected a communal plank to uproot the “corrupt” DMK regime, Mr. Palaniswami said, and questioned the DMK’s beingness successful INDIA bloc portraying conflicting governmental posturing of unison astatine the Centre, and indulgence successful bickering amongst constituents successful the States of Kerala, Delhi and West Bengal.
It was ridiculous connected Mr. Stalin’s portion to formed aspersions connected the sojourn of NDA sheet of BJP MPs to Karur successful the aftermath of the stampede, astatine a clip erstwhile the full state was grieving implicit the tragedy.
“Also, being successful confederation with Congress that had jailed DMK leaders, including you (Mr. Stalin), nether MISA (Maintenance of Internal Security Act), your speech astir ideology lacks substance,” Mr. Palaniswami said.
There was nary information anymore for radical successful Tamil Nadu. The rape of a pistillate by 2 constabulary constables successful Tiruvannamalai territory was the latest lawsuit successful constituent of the breakdown successful instrumentality and bid concern successful the State, Mr. Palaniswami said, during his roadworthy amusement that covered Pennagaram and Papparpatti.
