AIADMK co-coordinator Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Tuesday charged that the ruling DMK had no fortitude to fight the urban civic elections alone as the people were angry with its misrule in the State.
Campaigning for the AIADMK candidates at a meeting in Tiruchi, he said his party was fighting the elections alone as it had immense faith in the people. But the DMK, which was portraying that it had a “super Chief Minister”, who claims to have done an enviable job during the last nine-month rule, had a rainbow alliance with the Congress, the CPI, the CPI(M) and others. The DMK would not have gone with the alliance if it had the confidence that the people would support it , he felt. “The AIADMK has guts to fight the elections. I wonder whether the DMK can fight it alone?’ said Mr. Palaniswami.
Denying the charge that the AIADMK was the “voice” of the BJP in the State, Mr. Palaniswami said the DMK was actually the “dubbing voice” of the Congress. The AIADMK had been articulating the aspirations of the people as a responsible Opposition, he said.
