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The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly connected Wednesday witnessed a heated statement betwixt the Treasury Benches and the AIADMK, the main Opposition party, implicit recognition for establishing aesculapian colleges, distributing escaped laptops to students and the functioning of Amma Unavagams.
AIADMK MLA K.P. Munusamy, speaking during the treatment connected the Interim Budget and the Agriculture Budget for 2026–27, said by ensuring creaseless coordination with the Centre, his party’s erstwhile authorities had secured support for establishing 11 caller aesculapian colleges successful the State. He alleged the DMK authorities had failed to found immoderate aesculapian colleges successful the past four-and-a-half years.
In his response, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ma. Subramanian said though approvals for 11 aesculapian colleges were obtained during the AIADMK regime, the colleges were constructed and opened for admissions during the DMK regime, benefiting galore students.
Mr. Munusamy said it was his party-led authorities that enacted authorities providing 7.5% horizontal preservation successful undergraduate aesculapian admissions for authorities schoolhouse students who qualified successful NEET. Responding to this, Mr. Subramanian said though the House passed the Bill during the AIADMK’s tenure, it was not fixed assent by the Governor. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, who was past the Leader of the Opposition, “exerted unit done protests”.
Taking beardown objection, Leader of the Opposition Edappadi K. Palaniswami said the Minister was making “false statements” successful the House. He pointed retired it was his authorities that invoked Article 162 of the Constitution of India and took the enforcement way to instrumentality the 7.5% horizontal quota.
When Mr. Munusamy spoke astir the organisation of escaped laptops to students, Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu intervened and said the AIADMK MLA was attempting to represent the strategy arsenic 1 rolled retired to unafraid students’ votes. He denied immoderate specified volition and said the inaugural was implemented with students’ payment successful mind. Both sides past argued implicit the timing of the scheme’s implementation, arsenic it was introduced astatine the extremity of the world year.
A statement implicit Amma Unavagams arose erstwhile AIADMK MLA S.P. Velumani raised concerns astir a simplification successful money allocation to the canteens. Mr. Palaniswami said the Amma Canteen inaugurated by erstwhile Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa adjacent Foreshore Estate had been shut.
In response, Minister for Municipal Administration K.N. Nehru said capable funds were allocated by the respective section bodies to tally the canteens properly. He besides said nary idiosyncratic appointed during the erstwhile AIADMK authorities successful Amma Canteens had been removed.
