Vijay sought appointment with Palaniswami, but AIADMK did not grant time: Minister

Minister for Energy Resources and Law R. Nirmalkumar connected Tuesday claimed that Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay had sought an assignment with AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami aft assuming office, but the AIADMK did not assistance him the time.

“Considering the governmental concern astatine the time, arsenic the AIADMK had faced electoral setbacks, immoderate leaders of the enactment felt the gathering would not beryllium appropriate. The assignment sought by the Chief Minister was not confirmed by the AIADMK,” the Minister claimed during an enactment with journalists astatine the Secretariat successful Chennai.

Mr. Nirmalkumar’s effect connected the taxable came against the backdrop of CPI(M) State caput P. Shanmugam’s remarks that Mr. Vijay should person met Mr. Palaniswami, arsenic helium had met different governmental enactment leaders aft assuming office.

He besides defended the State government’s presumption with respect to maintaining instrumentality and order. He said the Police Department had been taking contiguous enactment whenever crimes reported and accused persons were arrested promptly. “But successful the erstwhile government, the attack was lackadaisical. Only aft the involution of courts enactment was taken by the authorities successful immoderate cases,” helium said.

“In immoderate cases, murders hap owed to idiosyncratic motives. But what matters is however the authorities takes enactment aft the incident,” helium said. Further, helium said strict measures had been taken against quarries operating illegally.

To a question connected farmers protesting against the State authorities and demanding a afloat waiver of harvest loans, Mr. Nirmalkumar said much than 12 lakh tiny and marginal farmers. who had taken loans from cooperative societies, had benefitted from the harvest indebtedness waiver announced successful antithetic slabs. He besides claimed immoderate sections had protested owed to instigation by the DMK.

He besides said the Chief Minister volition clasp nationalist meetings and proceed to conscionable radical astatine regular intervals.