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Releasing the AIADMK manifesto for the 2026 Assembly election, the enactment wide secretary, Edappadi K. Palaniswami, connected Tuesday (March 24, 2026) announced the proviso of 1 kg of pulse and 1 litre of cooking oil, escaped of cost, to ration card-holders nether the nationalist organisation strategy (PDS), on with escaped rice.
Free refrigerators
The organisation of escaped refrigerators to women beneficiaries of the PDS, the revision of energy tariff connected communal facilities successful multi-storey apartments, and the summation successful horizontal preservation for students of authorities schools successful admittance to the aesculapian courses from 7.5% to 10.5% are among the highlights of the manifesto. It contained 297 assurances.
Mr. Palaniswami told reporters astatine the enactment office that if his enactment captured power, the authorities would bash everything to augment the sources to money each the payment schemes. “Just arsenic we, successful the government, had managed the concern amid funds shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic, we volition bash it this clip too.”
As for agriculture, the enactment assured the electorate of steps to hole the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for paddy astatine ₹3,500 a quintal (now, ₹2,545 and ₹2,500 for people A and communal varieties respectively) and a just and remunerative terms of ₹4,500 a tonne (currently ₹3,500) for sweetener cane. Small and marginal farmers would get an yearly accumulation subsidy of up to ₹15,000 per hectare. A scheme, envisaging an mishap security screen of ₹25 lakh, would beryllium formulated for families of missing fishermen and those who died astatine sea.
Making it wide that determination “is nary change” successful the party’s basal against the clauses of the National Education Policy detrimental to the 2 connection formula, the manifesto said provisions of the argumentation that were not detrimental “can beryllium accepted”.
Amma Clinics
Among the different assurances fixed by the AIADMK were the revival of astir 2,000 Amma Clinics; conversion of each metropolis buses into electrical vehicles; and a subsidy of ₹30,000 for 1 kilowatt (KW) and ₹60,000 for 2 KW of rooftop star panels installed astatine houses.
The enactment said it would impulse the Union authorities to let nighttime flights and found cargo transport facilities at the Thoothukudi airport, isolated from restoring the 50% concession successful obstruction fare for elder citizens and journalists.
On the delicate contented of the re-introduction of the Old Pension Scheme for State authorities employees, the AIADMK said the Contributory Pension Scheme and the Tamil Nadu Assured Pension Scheme would beryllium reviewed.
The income ceiling for journalists’ pension would beryllium scrapped, it said. An entreaty would beryllium made to the Union authorities to supply “dual citizenship” to Sri Lankan refugees surviving successful rehabilitation camps, it added.
As for the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the enactment said it would impulse the Centre to see pump sets successful the database of cultivation machinery instrumentality for reducing the taxation complaint from 18% to 5%. An identical downward revision would beryllium recommended for recycled integrative discarded and products manufactured from it, and for the earthy materials required for making eco-friendly insubstantial bags, it said. Likewise, the occupation works of micro, small, and mean enterprises should transportation a GST rate of lone 5%, it said.
The enactment expressed its committedness to “transform the State quickly” into a 1 trillion dollar economy.
When asked wherefore helium chose Mylapore to motorboat his predetermination campaign, Mr. Palaniswami said “proximity” was the reason. Had helium been successful Salem, helium would person done it from there, helium added.
‘Talks nether way’
To a question connected concluding the talks with different allies, the AIADMK person said the negotiations were nether way, and would beryllium completed successful a fewer days. He said the confederation betwixt the PMK faction led by enactment laminitis S. Ramadoss and the All India Puratchi Thalaivar Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam led by V.K. Sasikala would person nary interaction connected the NDA’s prospects.
