AIADMK won’t break up even if a thousand Stalins emerge: EPS

AIADMK won’t break up even if a thousand Stalins emerge: EPS

‘Will Continue As CM Even After Jan 27’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:21,01,2021

Asserting that there would be no split in the AIADMK as anticipated by rivals, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday said he would continue to hold his official post even after January 27. The AIADMK would return to power for yet another term, the CM said, adding that it was the DMK which is on the verge of a split with former CM M Karunanidhi’s elder son M K Alagiri planning to float a party.

During his whistle-stop campaign in Kancheepuram, Palaniswami was at pains to dismiss speculation of possible split in the wake of the release of Jayalalithaa’s close aide V K Sasikala from a Bengaluru prison on January 27. DMSK president M K Stalin on Tuesday took a dig at the EPS government, wondering if the government would survive after January 27.

“Stalin’s ambition is to split the AIADMK and topple the government. He has no intention to do good for the people. Everywhere he goes, he asks if Edappadi Palaniswami will continue as CM. Of course, he will. That is because he enjoys the support of the people. The AIADMK cannot be touched even if a thousand Stalins emerge,” Palaniswami told supporters in Theradi, Kancheepuram district.

Palaniswami reminded the crowd of how he rose up the ranks from area secretary to minister through sheer hard work. “Stalin came up through short-cuts,” he said. “Stalin, you did not come to this position through hard work. But I did. I know how to steer the party and run the government,” the CM said, asking the DMK chief “to do good or else people may not even offer you a seat in the opposition benches”.

Recalling the “disrespectful behavior” of the DMK during the trust vote in 2017 and the alleged “physical assault” on Jayalalithaa in 1989 on the floor of the House, he said voters should think what it would be like if the DMK returned to power. Law and order would deteriorate, he said. “Udhayanidhi speaks disparagingly of women. Such people are eager to come to power. There is no history of those who slander and humiliate women winning,” the CM said and accused Stalin of making false and fancy promises during his Makkal Gram Sabha meetings.

SEA OF SUPPORTERS: Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami at a rally in Kancheepuram on Wednesday