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Asserting that the “saffron brigade” volition ne'er beryllium capable to overgarment Tamil Nadu successful saffron, DMK president and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin threw the gauntlet astatine the BJP, saying it would ne'er beryllium capable to regularisation the State adjacent if it came wearing the disguise of the AIADMK.
“They tin overgarment immoderate State successful saffron, but not Tamil Nadu,” helium said, addressing a mammoth gathering astatine the 12th State league of the enactment at Siruganur on the outskirts of Tiruchi on Monday (March 9, 2026).
‘We volition exposure you’
Explaining the crushed for his assertion that the 2026 Assembly predetermination was a combat betwixt Tamil Nadu and Delhi, Mr. Stalin said the radical of the State cognize the DMK is the lone question which has the spot to reason the existent enemies of Tamil Nadu, the Tamil language, and its culture. “You cannot deceive the radical by wearing the disguise of the AIADMK. We volition exposure you,” helium said.
“The saffron brigade wants to swallow Tamil Nadu somehow. But it volition ne'er hap arsenic agelong arsenic the reddish and achromatic service [the DMK] is here. They cognize this. That’s wherefore they are trying to dilatory swallow the AIADMK. The BJP is trying to destruct the AIADMK completely arsenic successful Bihar wherever it is trying to instal a BJP Chief Minister by side-lining Nitish Kumar aft winning the election. They are trying to bash this successful Tamil Nadu too. But I situation them — the BJP can ne'er regularisation the State, immoderate disguise you whitethorn deterioration oregon agencies you endanger america with,” helium said.
‘Seven-point imaginativeness achieved’
“In 2021, I outlined a seven-point imaginativeness for the improvement of Tamil Nadu. I tin proudly accidental that I person achieved the goals done assorted schemes implemented successful the past 5 years. Despite assorted crises and problems, we person grown,” Mr. Stalin said
Comparing the improvement parameters during the previous AIAMDK authorities and the existent government, Mr. Stalin said that during 2016-21, lone 471 MoUs were signed for concern investment. But, nether the contiguous government, 1,190 MoUs were signed. During the erstwhile government, Tamil Nadu attracted lone ₹4,13,414 crore worth of investments. But, successful the past 5 years, the State had attracted ₹12,54,133 crore in investments.
In the agriculture sector, the country of cultivation under AIADMK rule was 57.26 lakh hectares, which has present grown by much than five lakh hectares to 62.32 lakh hectares. “Under the Chief Minister’s Comprehensive Health Insurance Scheme, we person accrued the fig of beneficiaries to 90 lakh from 49 lakh by expanding the income ceiling to ₹1.20 lakh from ₹72,000. After 14 years, Tamil Nadu has recorded 11.19% economical growth. “We person specified a agelong database of achievements that we could not adjacent afloat explicate them to the people. Even if lone the beneficiaries of our schemes ballot for us, we volition expanse the election,” Mr. Stalin said.
Taking a excavation astatine the Opposition for announcing their predetermination promises successful “instalments”, Mr. Stalin said they were copying the schemes implemented by the DMK. For, nary of the parties tin halt the schemes implemented by the contiguous government. “Can immoderate of the parties halt schemes specified arsenic Mahalir Urimair Thogai and Vidiyal Payanam?” helium wondered.
The NDA, connected the different hand, had not done thing for Tamil Nadu. In the past 5 years, it had denied the funds the State had sought for education, Jal Jeevan Mission, the agrarian occupation scheme, and catastrophe relief. It was not adjacent bothered to denote thing for Tamil Nadu adjacent for the involvement of election. “How tin you present travel seeking votes to Tamil Nadu? How volition the radical ballot for the NDA, which ignores Tamil Nadu deliberately. Tamil Nadu volition ever accidental ‘no’ to the NDA, which ever says ‘no’ to immoderate we inquire for.”
‘A expansive finish’
Explaining wherefore the league was being organised now, the DMK person gave a cricket analogy: “In a crippled of cricket, it is important to commencement hitting runs from the precise archetypal ball. At the aforesaid time, we person to play the last overs aggressively and marque it a expansive decorativeness by hitting a six arsenic the winning changeable successful the past ball. We should get specified a triumph successful the election. That’s wherefore the league has been organised connected specified a expansive standard by [Minister] K.N. Nehru,” helium said.
