The AIADMK general secretary, Edappadi K. Palaniswami, on Sunday said that the ruling DMK was spreading rumours of his party still having links with the BJP.
Speaking at a marriage function for 100 couples in Dharmapuri, he said the AIADMK was a family that was not bound by any caste or religion. Unable to bear the fact that the party had snapped ties with the BJP, DMK president and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and his party functionaries were spreading “poisonous rumours” that the AIADMK had indirect links with the BJP, he added.
“The DMK got votes of minorities by cheating them, and we [the AIADMK] have put a full stop to it. In the past two-and-a-half years of the DMK government, nothing had been done for this [Dharmapuri] district. When the AIADMK was in power,, to increase the groundwater level and provide water to farmers, it announced a scheme at a cost of ₹500 crore to bring surplus water from the South Pennar River. But in the DMK government, the works for the scheme are progressing at a slow pace,” he added.
