Erode (East) bypoll 2025 | Keeping people in poverty has been the only achievement of rulers in the last 60 years, says Seeman
The Hindu
Seeman criticizes rulers for keeping people in poverty, questions development claims in Tamil Nadu.
Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) chief coordinator Seeman said on Friday that keeping people in poverty has been the only achievement of the rulers over the last 60 years.
Speaking at a public meeting while campaigning for party candidate M.K. Seethalakshmi in the Erode (East) Assembly byelection, he said that Chief Minister M.K. Stalin had claimed Tamil Nadu is a modern and developed State today because of Dravidian ideology. “Government schools and colleges lack basic amenities, while memorials on Marina beach, particularly that of former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, resemble luxury hotels,” he said
Pointing out that manual scavenging still persists, he said, “Modern Tamil Nadu exists only in words, while giving ₹5,000 per vote is the real modern Dravidianism,” he alleged.
Two naturalists have spotted the saffron reedtail, a rare species of damselfly endemic to the Western Ghats of India, for the first time in Karnataka. They found the damselflies, referred to as Indosticta deccanensis, in the forests along the Nethravati river in Madhugundi village near Sunkasale in Chikkamagaluru district last year. Earlier, the damselflies were noticed in Tamil Nadu and Kerala.