Taking credit for the implementation of the Magalir Urimai Thogai scheme that provides financial assistance of ₹1,000 per month to women heads of families, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, said that it was only after his party had exerted continuous pressure on the DMK government that the scheme mplemented in the State, 27 months after the DMK came to power.
Addressing functionaries of the Edappadi Assembly constituency for the Lok Sabha polls, Mr. Palaniswami said the narrative of the DMK government over the monthly basic income scheme was false. “How did they give it? I spoke about this in the Assembly several times, as well as in the party’s general body meeting, and pressured the government to implement the scheme,” he said and went on to take credit “for implementing the scheme,”.
Mr. Palaniswami who was campaigning for the AIADMK’s Salem candidate, P. Vignesh, also claimed that DMK cadre were issuing threats, stating that the monthly assistance to women would be stopped if women did not give them permission to draw/paint election advertisements on the walls of their houses. “We won’t allow the scheme to be stopped,” he said.
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