‘Even PM can’t stop DMK’s grama sabhas’

‘Even PM can’t stop DMK’s grama sabhas’

People Keen To Send AIADMK Govt Home: Stalin

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai: 26.12.2020

DMK president M K Stalin on Friday said not just chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, even Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot prevent his party from holding grama sabha meetings. Chief minister Palaniswami is terrified by the response that DMK is getting from people and hence issued an order to ban holding of grama sabha meetings, Stalin said.

“People are participating in large numbers in our grama sabha meetings. It is a clear signal that people are keen to send the AIADMK government home and bring the DMK to power. With elections just four months away, chief minister Palaniswami knows that his days in power are already numbered.

Hence he is trying to ban the grama sabha meetings being organized by us,” Stalin said, while participating in a people’s grama sabha meeting at Marakkanam in Villupuram district.

“We did not want to create confusion and hence decided to rename the grama sabha meetings as people’s grama sabha. These are being organized by the DMK to send out a clear message to reject the AIADMK government and the response for ‘We Reject ADMK’ campaign has been tremendous,” Stalin said.

DMK has planned to hold 16,500 grama sabha meetings in 10 days from December 23. In the first two days, more than 3,000 such meetings were held in which over one crore people participated, Stalin said.

“It is not just the people who have realized that the DMK will return to power after the forthcoming assembly elections.

“Even governor (Banwarilal Purohit) has realized it. Hence, when we met him to present a 97-page detailed complaint against chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam and six other ministers, governor promised us to take action. If he fails to do so, we will initiate action once we come to power,” Stalin said.

He said, chief minister Palaniswami was branding the DMK as a family party and one that indulged in corruption.

“Has any corruption charges against the DMK been proved so far? In the 2G case too, DMK deputy general secretary A Raja proved his innocence and came out of prison. If chief minister Palaniswami is confident, let him face the charges and prove his innocence. But, he fears that investigations will lead to his conviction and he will lose power,” Stalin said