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AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami connected Thursday (June 18, 2026) alleged that the Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK)-led authorities had failed to instrumentality capable steps to unafraid Cauvery h2o for kuruvai cultivation successful the Delta districts, causing hardship to farmers and depriving cultivation labourers of employment opportunities.
Speaking to reporters aft the Governor’s code successful the Assembly, Mr. Palaniswami said the Mettur Dam could not beryllium opened connected June 12 arsenic the retention level was inadequate.
“The TVK authorities has Congress members successful the Cabinet. It could person utilized their enactment to clasp talks with the Karnataka Chief Minister and unafraid the h2o owed to Tamil Nadu arsenic per the monthly schedule,” helium said.
Mr. Palaniswami said though the authorities had announced 436 schemes crossed assorted departments astatine a Cabinet meeting, they did not find notation successful the Governor’s address.
Law-and-order issues
He alleged contempt Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay making gangly promises connected curbing cause abuse, ensuring the information of women and maintaining instrumentality and order, the expanding fig of crimes successful the State was shocking.
“The authorities has failed to instrumentality capable steps to support instrumentality and order. Though a Special Drug Prevention Force has been constituted, cause trafficking and income person accrued compared to the past,” helium said.
The erstwhile Chief Minister claimed successful the 38 days since the authorities assumed office, 150 cases had been registered nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
“A full of 126 cases relating to intersexual offences against women person besides been registered. The concern has deteriorated to specified an grade that the Singapen Force, which was constituted to support women, present needs different unit to support itself. It is laughable,” helium quipped.
Mr. Palaniswami further said respective cardinal promises made by the TVK during the predetermination run had not recovered a spot successful the Governor’s address. These included expanding fiscal assistance for women to ₹2,500 per month, providing six escaped LPG cylinders annually, raising the old-age pension to ₹3,000, introducing the Anna Seer strategy providing 1 sovereign of golden to women astatine the clip of marriage, gifting a golden ringing to each kid calved successful a authorities hospital, and providing ₹4,000 arsenic unemployment assistance.
“The TVK made glittering promises to unafraid votes and seizure power. There are besides unannounced powerfulness cuts crossed the State, peculiarly during the night. People are incapable to sleep,” helium said.
On White Paper
Mr. Palaniswami alleged the White Paper connected fiscal situation released by the authorities simply reproduced figures contained successful the interim Budget presented by the erstwhile DMK government.
“The White Paper is an admittance that the authorities volition not beryllium capable to instrumentality its payment promises. The Chief Minister promised change, but what the radical person got is disappointment,” helium said.
Resignations of MLAs
Asked astir the resignation of erstwhile Minister and AIADMK MLA C. Vijayabaskar, Mr. Palaniswami said the question should beryllium posed to him.
When told astir the allegation that his enactment was liable for the party’s electoral setback, Mr. Palaniswami wondered whether the campaigner could person won had the enactment been ineffective.
“He won due to the fact that of beardown leadership, the payment schemes implemented during my tenure arsenic Chief Minister, and the hard enactment of AIADMK cadres, leaders, and our confederation partners,” helium said.
Mr. Palaniswami said those who had resigned their Assembly seats had failed to respect the radical who voted for them and the enactment workers who toiled for their victory. “They volition reap the consequences successful the future,” helium added.
Responding to erstwhile Minister C.V. Shanmugam’s request that the party’s wide assembly beryllium convened immediately, Mr. Palaniswami said, “We person reached this signifier lone done specified talks and talks.”
He questioned wherefore Mr. Shanmugam had mislaid the 2021 Assembly predetermination contempt the AIADMK’s confederation partner, the PMK, being beardown successful the bluish districts.
“We fielded candidates successful the 2026 predetermination based connected his recommendations successful constituencies specified arsenic Villupuram, Vanur, and Tindivanam. Why did those candidates lose? He is making allegations lone to make disorder wrong the alliance,” helium said.
Mr. Palaniswami said helium would clasp consultations with enactment functionaries successful each district.
“They are the radical who worked time and nighttime to unafraid triumph for the candidates of the enactment and its confederation partners. We person already held a gathering with office-bearers from Kancheepuram territory and gave everyone an accidental to explicit their views. The enactment enactment volition enactment connected the feedback received,” helium said.
General assembly meeting
Mr. Palaniswami said that aft obtaining opinions from office-bearers successful each district—including MLAs, MPs, erstwhile Ministers, erstwhile legislators, wide assembly members and enforcement committee members—the enactment would convene its wide assembly meeting.
“Only past tin we germinate constructive ideas for the maturation of the enactment and analyse the reasons for the defeat,” helium said.
Mr. Palaniswami asserted nary individual, nevertheless influential, could harm the AIADMK.
“We person faced galore challenges successful the past. We person experienced victories and defeats successful adjacent measure. Even now, we person won 47 seats. I person been accused of facing continuous defeats, but I won my constituency by the largest margin. A alteration of authorities is mean successful a ideology and is often shaped by circumstances,” helium said.
