DMK govt lacks intellectual ability to come out with new schemes, BJP leader Annamalai says

TUTICORIN: BJP state president K Annamalai criticised the DMK government in Tamil Nadu for lacking the intellectual ability to come out with new schemes for the people. He alleged that the state government was renaming the Centre’s schemes and taking credit for it.
Interacting with reporters at the Tuticorin airport before heading to Tirunelveli to address party cadre, Annamalai said the Centre’s New Education Policy (NEP) had been introduced as ‘Illam Thedi Kalvi’ in Tamil Nadu and ‘Jan Oushad Kendra’ as ‘Malivu Vilai Marundhu’.
He said chief minister M K Stalin was stealing the limelight by using schemes of the Centre and cited the latter visiting Narikurava woman Aswini who was denied food at the temple with other devotees. The BJP leader said that Stalin had given her the Centre’s Mudra Loan meant for small vendors and street traders.
Annamalai accused the state government of taking 20% commission for sanction of new projects and 4% to clear the bills. “All of these are going to the one family that is ruling the state,” he said.
Stating that there was corruption in the state in the implementation of the Centre’s ambitious Jal Jeevan Scheme that is aimed at taking drinking water to the rural populace, he said it had been taken to the Union government’s notice and the ministers concerned. “They are looking into it and have assured of appropriate action,” he said.
Tamil Nadu should be saved from the corrupt government that was also trying to silence its critics by unleashing its official powers, he said.
Stating that now the business community and political circles even within their party had started talking about rampant corruption, he added that the common man would also start talking of it soon. He said there was difference in opinion among DMK ministers on the NEP as “one says it would not be implemented whereas another says that good aspects of the policy will be introduced in the state.”