‘Daydreaming’, EPS Dismisses CM Stalin’s 2026 Meeting Election Goal | India Information
Chief of Opposition and AIADMK Normal Secretary Edappadi Okay. Palaniswami (EPS) on Sunday dismissed Chief Minister M.Okay. Stalin’s declare that the DMK-led coalition would win over 200 seats within the 2026 Tamil Nadu Meeting elections, calling it a “daydream”.
Talking on the wedding ceremony of Arakkonam MLA S. Ravi’s son, Palaniswami stated, “Stalin is daydreaming when he says his alliance will safe greater than 200 Meeting seats within the subsequent polls. It’s, actually, the AIADMK-led entrance that can kind the following authorities in Tamil Nadu after 2026.”
He additionally asserted that extra political events would quickly be a part of the AIADMK alliance, additional strengthening its place.
Highlighting achievements of the AIADMK throughout its earlier tenure from 2016 to 2021, Palaniswami took credit score for the creation of six new districts in Tamil Nadu, together with Ranipet and Tirupattur, which have been carved out of Vellore.
He stated the formation of those new administrative models enabled a greater deal with underdeveloped areas.
The previous Chief Minister additionally listed a number of academic initiatives launched in the course of the AIADMK regime, together with the institution of 11 new medical faculties, six regulation faculties, and extra engineering and agricultural faculties.
“Quite the opposite, the DMK authorities is merely relaunching our schemes below new names by pasting their stickers on them,” he alleged.
Palaniswami questioned the DMK’s 2021 ballot promise to construct examine dams price Rs 2,000 crore throughout Tamil Nadu. “What number of examine dams has the DMK authorities constructed up to now? Each monsoon, extra rainwater merely drains into the ocean because of poor planning,” he stated.
He additional criticised the DMK for discontinuing pro-poor schemes launched by the AIADMK, comparable to Amma Clinics and the Kudimaramathu initiative, which allowed farmers to desilt native waterbodies. “This not solely deepened water storage areas but additionally supplied nutrient-rich silt for farmlands,” he stated.
Palaniswami additionally cited the AIADMK’s introduction of the 7.5 per cent horizontal reservation for presidency college college students in medical admissions as a landmark initiative. “Due to this, 3,460 authorities college college students have been in a position to pursue medication because the 2020-21 tutorial 12 months,” he stated.
The occasion was attended by former Minister and Tirupattur district in-charge Okay.C. Veeramani, together with a number of AIADMK functionaries and occasion cadre.
