Minister for Information and Publicity Kadambur C Raju on Sunday said that voting pattern in Assembly and Lok Sabha elections will not be the same and people will vote for the ruling party in Vellore Lok Sabha election.
Kadambur C Raju
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He also recalled the electoral history in the past where AIADMK had won in Assembly elections despite losing the Lok Sabha elections. “When former chief minister MG Ramachandran was ruling the state in 1980, AIADMK lost in Lok Sabha elections by getting only two seats. Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, believing the words of former DMK chief M Karunanidhi that AIADMK government had lost popularity, dissolved the state Assembly, but in the Assembly elections held within six months, the AIADMK won more seats than the previous Assembly polls. Similarly, in 2004 Lok Sabha elections we lost all the constituencies, but in 2006 we won 68 seats and became the single largest opposition party.”
The same pattern will repeat in this Lok Sabha election in Vellore where people will vote for the AIADMK alliance. “If the AIADMK alliance would have won in Tamil Nadu, there would have been two or three Union Ministers from the state. Now as BJP has won the majority in Lok Sabha elections, people of Vellore too will join the national stream and will vote for AIADMK alliance,” the Minister noted.
Addressing reporters, Kadambur Raju, said, “Tamil Nadu politics is unique and people will not vote in the same manner for the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. Parties which had won in Lok Sabha elections have lost badly in Assembly elections held immediately and the recent results in Assembly and Parliamentary election will not impact the Vellore Lok Sabha election.”
He also recalled the electoral history in the past where AIADMK had won in Assembly elections despite losing the Lok Sabha elections. “When former chief minister MG Ramachandran was ruling the state in 1980, AIADMK lost in Lok Sabha elections by getting only two seats. Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, believing the words of former DMK chief M Karunanidhi that AIADMK government had lost popularity, dissolved the state Assembly, but in the Assembly elections held within six months, the AIADMK won more seats than the previous Assembly polls. Similarly, in 2004 Lok Sabha elections we lost all the constituencies, but in 2006 we won 68 seats and became the single largest opposition party.”
The same pattern will repeat in this Lok Sabha election in Vellore where people will vote for the AIADMK alliance. “If the AIADMK alliance would have won in Tamil Nadu, there would have been two or three Union Ministers from the state. Now as BJP has won the majority in Lok Sabha elections, people of Vellore too will join the national stream and will vote for AIADMK alliance,” the Minister noted.
‘AIADMK not scared of civic polls’
The AIADMK-led government in the state is not scared of local body polls and it will achieve massive victory if it, said Minister for Information and Publicity Kadambur C Raju.
Speaking to reporters in Kovilpatti on Sunday, the state Minister said, Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar in his recent statement generalised that there’s some problem in extending funds and it would not affect Tamil Nadu.
He said, about 99 per cent of delimitation exercise of wards had been completed and the rest would be over soon and the government reported the progress in delimitation exercise before the court and expressed its readiness to conduct civic polls. The government is ready to face the local body polls, for which notification is expected to be issued in October this year, said the Minister. Meanwhile, he blamed Nalini Chidambaram and cited her as one of the reason for NEET not being exempted by the Supreme Court. Since she argued in the court, the Supreme Court was against NEET exemption to Tamil Nadu. However, the state government was firm in its stand against NEET right from the beginning. But despite all out efforts, NEET could not be scrapped, he added.