Cricket gets into debate at TN assembly
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:13.02.2019
Everyone loves a game of cricket. Even legislators do, it seems. A fair part of the debate, on the state budget in the assembly on Tuesday, saw members borrow phrases from the gentleman’s game.
On Monday, Mettur AIADMK MLA S Semmalai, during a debate on the state budget had said chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami was hitting sixer after sixer. “First he hit a sixer by announcing ₹1,000 for all card holders during Pongal festival and the second sixer is with the announcement of ₹2,000 to people, below poverty line,” said Semmalai.
Recalling what Semmalai said, DMK member K Ponmudi on Tuesday said all these sixers would end soon, once DMK president M K Stalin began bowling. “Yesterday, Semmalai said the chief minister is hitting sixer after sixer, but if Thalapathi (DMK president M K Stalin) starts to bowl, everyone will be clean bowled,” said Ponmudi at the end of his speech.
“All balls bowled by Stalin will be no balls,” quipped fisheries minister D Jayakumar immediately. Later, it was the turn of power minister P Thangamani, who said for someone to start bowling and getting others clean bowled, he has to enter the ground first. There were peals of laughter from both sides, except speaker P Dhanapal, who like an umpire could not hide his smile for a change. But, he was also looking at the clock, as it was getting late for lunch.
DMK’s Ponmudi, in response to an AIADMK member’s comment that EPS has been hitting ‘sixers’ by announcing schemes for the people, said, ‘all sixers’ by EPS will end when M K Stalin starts bowling. Fisheries minister D Jayakumar reacted saying, ‘All balls bowled by Stalin will be no balls’
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:13.02.2019
Everyone loves a game of cricket. Even legislators do, it seems. A fair part of the debate, on the state budget in the assembly on Tuesday, saw members borrow phrases from the gentleman’s game.
On Monday, Mettur AIADMK MLA S Semmalai, during a debate on the state budget had said chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami was hitting sixer after sixer. “First he hit a sixer by announcing ₹1,000 for all card holders during Pongal festival and the second sixer is with the announcement of ₹2,000 to people, below poverty line,” said Semmalai.
Recalling what Semmalai said, DMK member K Ponmudi on Tuesday said all these sixers would end soon, once DMK president M K Stalin began bowling. “Yesterday, Semmalai said the chief minister is hitting sixer after sixer, but if Thalapathi (DMK president M K Stalin) starts to bowl, everyone will be clean bowled,” said Ponmudi at the end of his speech.
“All balls bowled by Stalin will be no balls,” quipped fisheries minister D Jayakumar immediately. Later, it was the turn of power minister P Thangamani, who said for someone to start bowling and getting others clean bowled, he has to enter the ground first. There were peals of laughter from both sides, except speaker P Dhanapal, who like an umpire could not hide his smile for a change. But, he was also looking at the clock, as it was getting late for lunch.
DMK’s Ponmudi, in response to an AIADMK member’s comment that EPS has been hitting ‘sixers’ by announcing schemes for the people, said, ‘all sixers’ by EPS will end when M K Stalin starts bowling. Fisheries minister D Jayakumar reacted saying, ‘All balls bowled by Stalin will be no balls’
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