Farmers Movement Archive

AIADMK insincere on CAA, says Kani

Trichy: AIADMK’s poll promise to pressure the Centre to withdraw Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was aimed at wooing Muslim voters in the assembly election, said DMK women’s wing secretary and Lok Sabha MP K Kanimozhi. Campaigning in Karur on Sunday, she said AIADMK supported CAA in Parliament. “If AIADMK was serious about the cause of Muslims, it would not have supported the bill in Parliament,” she said. “We may have different religious beliefs, but we stand united as Tamilians,” she said while campaigning at Aravakurichi where BJP has fielded its state vice-president K Annamalai. She said their rivals are trying to create division in the name of caste and religion. “They have brought NEET and prevented our children from studying MBBS. They introduced farm laws which are anti-farmer. The AIADMK government in the last four years was a benami government of BJP at the Centre. Both parties are working against the interests of Tamil Nadu and its people,” she said. Targeting the state government, she said crime against women has increased and even an IPS officer was not an exception, referring to the complaint of an IPS officer against a former DGP-level officer. Under local minister M R Vijayabhaskar, transport department became one of the most corrupt departments, she said. “There are over 23 lakh unemployed youth in the state. As soon as DMK comes to power, 3.5 lakh government posts will be filled with locals getting the opportunity than people from other states,” she said. tnn

The Times of India

2021-03-22

Trichy