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The Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) has demanded that the nation’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, beryllium conferred posthumously connected the person of the Forward Bloc, U. Muthuramalinga Thevar, and erstwhile Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. The enactment besides wanted the Madurai International Airport to beryllium named aft Thevar.
These demands formed the highlights of the 32-page poll manifesto released by enactment wide caput T.T.V. Dhinakaran connected Saturday (March 28, 2026).
Seeking the waiver of harvest loans taken by farmers from cooperative and nationalised banks, the AMMK called for the enlargement of the protected cultivation zone. Suggesting that a instrumentality beryllium enacted for guaranteeing the proviso of services by authorities bodies to radical wrong a specified timeline, the AMMK favoured a caste survey to beryllium undertaken by the State government, which would yet not disturb the 69% quota system.
It also promised radical that it would instrumentality steps toward the restoration of the denotified tribes status for denotified communities, which person been experiencing hardships successful securing concessions from the Union government.
While reiterating that acquisition beryllium included again successful the State List of the Constitution, the AMMK wanted the Kendriya Vidyalaya and P.M. Shri schools be opened successful greater number. In north Tamil Nadu, an AIIMS [All India Institute of Medical Sciences] and successful the south, an IIT [Indian Institute of Technology] should beryllium established, it said.
The enactment besides committed itself not lone to restoring the monthly billing of home consumers of energy but besides providing 100 units escaped each month. It assured the radical that the Old Pension Scheme beryllium restored for employees of the State government. Also, the concession successful railway fare for elder citizens, suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic, should beryllium brought back. The quantum of preservation for Muslims successful acquisition and employment should beryllium accrued to 5%.
The AMMK besides said it would instrumentality steps for the revival of the Legislative Council, which was abolished 40 years ago, and halting the “privatisation” of State Transport Corporations. Amma Unavagams should beryllium opened for each panchayat union. The enactment besides assured the radical that it would instrumentality efforts in finding a imperishable solution to the ineligible hurdles in providing lodging plots astatine concessional rates astatine the territory level to full-time journalists.
