“The state financial credit limits surged due to the loans availed to create state infrastructure and the DMK is trying to play politics,” Leader of Opposition and former chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami told reporters in Salem. The DMK has no new schemes and ideas to implement and has started blaming the previous government, he said. EPS also denied speculations that former minister Rajenthra Bhalaji is joining BJP. It is 100 per cent fake news. He is an AIADMK loyalist and continues to be so, he said. 

Meanwhile, AIADMK leader and former finance minister D Jayakumar told DT Next that “The DMK is trying to play a tactical game. They do not want to execute the poll promises which they made ahead of the Assembly elections. This is just a tactic to delay the sops announced by the DMK.” We will take on this issue in the Assembly. 

The Finance Minister is an educated person aware of audits and accounts. Despite knowing that the state exchequer is in bad shape, the DMK went to announce freebies and sops that are far from reality and now to escape from the public anger they have started blaming the previous AIADMK government, Jayakumar added. 

Former AIADMK MP KC Palaniswami said that the White Paper has repeated what the CAG reports and the previous budget presentations stated, but my worry is that the Finance Minister is hinting about tax revision and the increase of bus fare and electricity charges. He also talks about property tax and water charge revisions, which is scary from the public point of view. 

AMMK general secretary TTV Dhinakaran also expressed concern over Thiyagarajan hinting about tax revision.