TTV Dhinakaran will be last in bypoll race: MK Stalin
He said the Election Commission had promised to hold the bypoll in a free and fair manner and hoped that they would be fair
Chennai: DMK working president Stalin on Wednesday predicted that AIADMK (Amma) candidate T.T.V. Dinakaran would be pushed to the last place in the RK Nagar bypoll even if his name is in the second place.
Talking to the media at Chennai airport, Stalin also said the state government is only planning to win the RK Nagar contest through fraudulent means and they were not worried about the sorrows of people, especially farmers.
He said the Election Commission had promised to hold the bypoll in a free and fair manner and hoped that they would be fair. Recalling the DMK’s petition to transfer former CoP S.George and the Returning Officer, he said the EC had realised the fairness behind DMK’s complaint and shifted both the officials.
He further said some of the police officers are resorting to irregularities with the support of ministers and MLAs and added that the DMK had complained to officials concerned. The DMK will be alert and monitor the situation in the RK Nagar byelection, he said.
Replying to a question as to how much importance he attached to the bypoll since it is his first election after taking over as the working president, he said “I have the same thinking like you”.
Questioned about the protest of Tamil Nadu farmers in New Delhi, he said since the state government had ignored their protests here, they were forced to go to Delhi and protest. The farmers protest had crossed two weeks, but the Centre is not worried about it.
DMK MP ‘Tiruchy’ N. Siva had taken the representatives of the protesting farmers to finance minister Arun Jaitley and helped them convey their grievances. He complained that Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palanisami had not met the protesting farmers.
Responding to a query about the state government’s silence on the signing of the Neduvasal hydrocarbon project, he recalled his demand in the Assembly that a resolution be passed the Assembly that Neduvasal hydrocarbon project would not be implemented. The state government is silent about his demand and it shows that the state government is supporting the Centre which is enacting a dual role on the issue, he alleged.
The Union ministers keep saying that the project will not implemented, but the Centre has signed an MoU with private companies for the project, he added.