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AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami addressing the media astatine the Salem airdrome connected Friday. | Photo Credit: E. LAKSHMI NARAYANAN
Former Chief Minister and AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami connected Friday urged Chief Minister M.K. Stalin to talk with the Congress precocious bid to resoluteness the Mekedatu row. Speaking to reporters astatine Salem Airport, helium said Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar stated successful a November 18 interrogation that a caller Detailed Project Report (DPR) would beryllium submitted for the operation of a balancing reservoir successful Mekedatu. Mr. Palaniswami warned that the task would crook the Cauvery delta portion into a desert, affecting lakhs of farmers who beryllium connected the stream for irrigation and drinking h2o proviso successful 20 Tamil Nadu districts. He argued that Karnataka does not person the close to conception the reservoir arsenic per the Supreme Court verdict and criticised the Mr. Stalin for not responding to the issue. Pointing retired that the DMK is portion of the INDIA bloc and that the Congress governs Karnataka, helium contended that the Chief Minister should talk with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and elder leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to code the matter. On the Coimbatore and Madurai Metro Rail projects, Mr. Palaniswami said the AIADMK authorities had initiated DPR work, but the DMK authorities kept the task successful abeyance for 3 years. He said the Centre returned the DPR arsenic it was based connected the 2011 population, which did not conscionable the request of a 20-lakh colonisation for Metro Rail projects. He urged the State authorities to revise the DPR utilizing 2025 colonisation estimates and added that the AIADMK would instrumentality the task guardant if it returned to powerfulness successful 2026. Criticising the law-and-order situation, helium cited the execution of a schoolhouse pupil successful Rameswaram by a stalker and a pack clash successful Chennai. He accused the DMK authorities of failing to name a regular DGP contempt Supreme Court instructions and questioned its determination to entreaty successful the Supreme Court against the Madras High Court’s bid for a CBI probe into the execution of BSP State president Armstrong. Supporting the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls “to destruct fake voters”, helium alleged irregularities successful Tambaram Assembly constituency, claiming 510 voters were registered crossed conscionable 2 houses. He said SIR enactment was being hindered owed to governmental unit and stressed that voter-list corrections should beryllium done solely by designated officials. Mr. Palaniswami said helium did not the cognize the crushed wherefore the national authorities rejected the state’s request to rise the permissible moisture contented successful paddy. He said erstwhile the crushed came out, helium volition remark connected this issue. But astatine the aforesaid clip helium asked national authorities to see to summation the moisture contented to 22%. Responding to a viral video claiming that Harur MLA was made to beryllium connected the floor, helium said AIADMK does not practise caste favoritism and noted that erstwhile Chief Minister Jayalalithaa appointed Mr. Dhanapal (a Scheduled Caste leader) arsenic Assembly Speaker. On the Salem textile parkland issue, helium said that during the AIADMK regime, 500 acres were identified astatine the Salem Steel Plant for a textile parkland and defence corridor. The Union Government had agreed to supply the onshore astatine line value, but the DMK authorities did not enactment connected it, helium alleged. He urged the State Government to instrumentality the task without affecting farmer.
Published - November 21, 2025 09:16 p.m. IST
