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Tamil Nadu Minister for Natural Resources and elder DMK person S. Regupathy connected Thursday (March 12, 2026) rejected Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s allegation that determination was nary extortion for women successful Tamil Nadu. He said the information that 42% of women are employed and 52% were prosecute higher acquisition was a testament to women’s information successful the State.
“The Prime Minister should archetypal travel retired with statistic connected unit and attacks against women successful the BJP-ruled States successful the country,” Mr. Regupathy told reporters astatine Anna Arivalayam, the DMK office successful Chennai.
He said successful Tamil Nadu, the DMK authorities had created consciousness and women present boldly travel guardant to record complaints astatine constabulary stations. “But successful different States, determination is nary information for women successful constabulary stations, and they are acrophobic to attack them to registry complaints. We person wide numbers of complaints of attacks against women due to the fact that we registry cases,” helium explained.
Mr. Regupathy said random incidents could not beryllium generalised and utilized to allege that instrumentality and bid had deteriorated successful the State. “The condemnation complaint successful Tamil Nadu is higher than successful different States,” helium said.
Asked astir the ailment that the availability of ganja had resulted successful crimes, as successful the Nanguneri incident, Mr. Regupathy said ganja was not cultivated successful Tamil Nadu. “It is smuggled into Tamil Nadu from different States. It is the work of the Union government’s Narcotics Control Bureau to forestall the smuggling of ganja. But they let the smuggling and stay mute spectators without taking immoderate action.” helium claimed.
However, the Tamil Nadu constabulary person the courageousness and capableness to power the menace, helium said.
‘Fight betwixt T.N. and Delhi’
Reiterating the BJP-led NDA could not execute thing successful Tamil Nadu politics, helium recalled Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s remarks that the 2026 Assembly predetermination would beryllium a combat betwixt Tamil Nadu and Delhi.
“The question earlier the voters is whether Tamil Nadu should govern the State oregon whether a authorities remote-controlled from Delhi should regularisation the State. The radical of Tamil Nadu volition not let a remote-controlled authorities and volition ballot overwhelmingly for the continuation of the ‘Dravidian Model’ authorities for a 2nd term,” helium said.
Mr. Regupathy besides claimed the radical of Tamil Nadu would not judge the corruption charges against the DMK government.
“The erstwhile AIADMK authorities headed by Edappadi K. Palaniswami became a awesome of corruption, commission, and collection. We utilized to organise protests against that government. Today, determination is nary corruption. Our person volition not hesitate to instrumentality enactment against anyone progressive successful corruption,” helium said.
