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Only BJP national leadership can decide on political alliance in TN: Palaniswami

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Chennai: AIADMK General Secretary K. Palaniswami on Monday said that only the BJP’s national leadership can decide on the alliance in the state for the Lok Sabha elections next year.
Interacting with media persons at Salem, the AIADMK leader’s comment came following state BJP leader K. Annamalai’s “interpretation” of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement as it had “some nuances”. Even as Union Minister of state for Information and Broadcasting and BJP’s former state chief, L. Murugan has said that the alliance with the AIADMK would continue, Annamalai said that as of now the alliance was intact but elections for 2024 Lok Sabha are far off. He had also said that those who knew Hindi well can “interpret” Shah’s speech.
Palaniswami’s statement was a clear message to the state BJP leadership that he would be directly dealing with their national leadership and not with them. The central BJP leadership wants a few seats from Tamil Nadu in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and does want the AIADMK as its alliance partner.

It is also clear that without an alliance with the AIADMK, the BJP will not get any seat in Tamil Nadu and the central leadership of the party cannot afford this.
Palaniswami, when asked on BJP leader Nainar Nagendran’s statement that he was invited to rejoin AIADMK by him, confirmed it, adding: “Not only Nainar Nagendran but all leaders who had quit the AIADMK party should rejoin it.”
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 3, 2023
TN Assembly elections likely to be held with 2024 LS polls: Palaniswami

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Chennai, April 2 (IANS) AIADMK General Secretary K. Palansiwami (EPS) on Sunday said that there is a high possibility that Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, slated for 2026, would be held with the Lok Sabha polls in 2024 and if this happens, his party will come to power in the state.
“Lok Sabha elections are scheduled to be held next year and there are possibilities of the Assembly elections also being held in 2024 along with the Lok Sabha polls. This is in line with the Centre’s One Nation, One Election and the AIADMK will come to power in Tamil Nadu. Our ambition is to serve the people, whether in power or not,” he said while addressing a party meeting at Villupuram
The current Assembly’s tenure lasts till May 2026.

Palaniswami, who is also the former Chief Minister, said that the traitors who have joined the DMK and are functioning as “its B team” would fail, adding that the AIADMK was “a big banyan tree that the DMK will not be able to uproot”.
He said that AIADMK founder leader and former Chief Minister MGR and late leader J. Jayalalithaa considered the party cadres as the true heirs to run the party.
“I have been elected with a massive mandate as General Secretary of the party and have the total support of the party rank and file. I will discharge my duties as per the expectations of my party workers,” he added.
He also said that AIADMK would face all the cases foisted by the DMK and emerge the winner.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 2, 2023
TN Assembly elections likely to be held with 2024 LS polls: Palaniswami

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Chennai: AIADMK general secretary K Palansiwami (EPS) on Sunday said that there is a high possibility that Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, slated for 2026, would be held with the Lok Sabha polls in 2024 and if this happens, his party will come to power in the state.
“Lok Sabha elections are scheduled to be held next year and there are possibilities of the Assembly elections also being held in 2024 along with the Lok Sabha polls. This is in line with the Centre’s One Nation, One Election and the AIADMK will come to power in Tamil Nadu. Our ambition is to serve the people, whether in power or not,” he said while addressing a party meeting at Villupuram
The current Assembly’s tenure lasts till May 2026.

Palaniswami, who is also the former Chief Minister, said that the traitors who have joined the DMK and are functioning as “its B team” would fail, adding that the AIADMK was “a big banyan tree that the DMK will not be able to uproot”.
He said that AIADMK founder leader and former Chief Minister MGR and late leader J. Jayalalithaa considered the party cadres as the true heirs to run the party.
“I have been elected with a massive mandate as General Secretary of the party and have the total support of the party rank and file. I will discharge my duties as per the expectations of my party workers,” he added.
He also said that AIADMK would face all the cases foisted by the DMK and emerge the winner.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 2, 2023
AIADMK’s alliance with BJP to continue for 2024 polls: Palaniswami

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Chennai: AIADMK’s interim general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami said on Friday that AIADMK’s alliance with BJP will continue for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Claiming the AIADMK’s relationship with the BJP had been cordial, he said that the parties would fight the 2024 polls together.
Talking to reporters in Tirunelveli after campaigning for his party’s candidate in the Erode East Assembly by-poll, he played down the controversies about AIADMK and BJP leaders attacking each other on social media.
The AIADMK leader said that each leader would want their party to grow, unlike in the ruling Secular Progressive Alliance, where the partners focused more on the DMK’s growth.
The former chief minister also remarked that it was the AIADMK that had helped so many other parties and not the other way around.
The by-poll in Erode East is scheduled on February 27.
Palaniswami said that he would campaign for the candidate again on February 24 and 25.
Exuding confidence that AIADMK will win the by-election, he said the victory will resound in Lok Sabha polls as well.

He alleged that the DMK government had done nothing for the people of Erode East. He said that Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s government had not even ensured proper drinking water for the constituency’s residents in its 21-month tenure.
He claimed that when AIADMK was in power, it had taken up an exclusive integrated drinking water project at a cost of Rs 484 crore for Erode, from the Cauvery river.
After the trial runs, when the scheme was to be commissioned, the general elections were announced in May 2021.
The AIADMK leader said wherever DMK leaders were campaigning, the people were questioning them.
He alleged that the law and order had deteriorated in the state due to the inefficiency of the DMK government.
“The drug menace is rife across the state; we see the lives of youngsters and students getting spoiled in front of our eyes,” he added.
He slammed the chief minister for not fulfilling poll promises but instead building a memorial and a library in the name of his father.
He pointed out that many environmentalists, activists and fishermen have opposed the government’s decision to construct a pen statue in the sea.
“We are not against the pen statue but we are asking the government to construct it near the memorial and not in the sea,” he said, adding that the government need not spend Rs 81 crore on that. The government can construct it with Rs 2 crore and use the remaining money to distribute free pens to students, he said.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 10, 2023