CM Stalin Allocates Rs 3,750 Cr for New Roads in Tamil Nadu
Chennai: Declaring Tamil Nadu as the safest State, Chief Minister M K Stalin said that he was happy to see the opposition members turning up in black shirts to the House but wondered why they did not protest against the Governor, who insulted the Tamil anthem, or against the Union Government that was seeking to destroy school education through the New Education Policy and college education through the UGC.
In his reply to the debate over the resolution on the Governor’s Address in the State Assembly on Saturday, he announced the opening of 7 new courts in the State to hear cases relating to crimes against women for speedy trial in Madurai, Tirunelveli, Coimbatore, Salem, Trichy, Chennai and suburban Chennai and the appointment of special DSPs to investigate crimes against women.
Allocating Rs 3,750 crore for the laying of new roads in the recently urbanized areas of the State, he said 3000 new buses would be purchased in the coming year for the State transport corporations and that one lakh house pattas would be distributed to persons belonging to the SC communities.
Telling the AIADMK members that they had stood by the BJP since the days they were in power, he said that those who play dark politics had no right to wear black shirts. Referring to the Union Government reneging in its release of funds for providing relief to the State that suffered a succession of cyclones and heavy rains, he said that the amount of Rs 276 crore that was finally given was not even one per cent of the Rs 37,906 crore asked for.
Explaining to the members of the House the constraints due to lack of funds, caused by the Union Government’s neglect of the State, he said that it was the reason behind the DMK government not honouring some of the promises given to the people during the elections. Otherwise most of the promises had been fulfilled, he said, in reply to the AIADMK charge during the debate.
Urging the AIADMK not to raise the tungsten exploration issue needlessly and create panic in Madurai area, he reiterated that as long as he was the Chief Minister the project would not come and if that happens he would not remain in the post. Accusing the AIADMK of paving the way for the State losing its rights on the auctioning of mines, he said he had records to prove that it was the AIADMK member Thambidurai who supported the move of the Union that was vehemently opposed by the DMK since the beginning.
Crimes had come down in the State, the Chief Minister said. Those that were being reported related to family disputes, love affairs, money transactions, personal enmity and fights and not for political reasons, caste and communal difference, due to rowdy violence, which had all been nipped in the bud by the DMK government, he said.
Those who indulged in crimes were caught immediately with nobody interfering in the investigations to save the arrested persons and efforts were made to get maximum punishment for the accused with no one getting any concessions, he said.
Giving a long list of pending funds from the Union Government, he said that it was first a herculean task before the government to pull out the State from the abyss that it was pushed into by the 10 years of AIADMK rule between 2011 and 2021 and then the refusal to pay the State its dues aggravated the situation.