DMK working president M.K. Stalin on Friday announced a month-long State-wide tour programme similar to the Namakku Naame (By Us, For Us) road show he undertook just before the run-up to the 2016 Assembly polls.
“The programme will be held between the first week of November and the first week of December. We have already discussed the details of the programme with the district secretaries,” Mr. Stalin told reporters after the party district secretaries meeting here on Friday.
But heavy monsoon in the next two months could play spoilsport.
Asked about the theme of the tour, the DMK leader said it was not a road show just with an eye on the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls. “We will explain the irregularities of the ruling AIADMK to the people. The tour is the need of the hour to expose the government which indulged in horse-trading,” he said.
The itinerary had not been finalised. “We are still holding talks and a formal announcement will be released in a few days,” he added.
‘Warning ignored’
Expressing shock over the death of eight people in the collapse of the Transport Corporation resting room in Porayar, Mr. Stalin said even though trade unions had reminded the Corporation’s management of the bad condition of the roof no action was taken. “The government must take responsibility for the accident,” he said.
Asked about BJP general secretary Muralidhar Rao’s comments that DMK founder C.N. Annadurai would have joined the BJP had he been alive, Mr. Stalin quipped if the BJP had changed to the extent to talk about Anna it should be welcomed. “If they follow the principles of Anna, we will be happy,” he said.
Mr. Stalin said a resolution adopted at the party district secretaries’ meeting had urged the State and the Centre to declare spread of dengue as “health disaster” and take action on a war footing.
Another resolution demanded immediate conduct of election to local bodies to eradicate the health hazards faced by the people.