We should vow to ensure victory in all 40 Lok Sabha seats in T.N., Puducherry: CM

We should vow to ensure victory in all 40 Lok Sabha seats in T.N., Puducherry: CM

Emphasising the need to expose the BJP’s “corrupt face”, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Sunday said the DMK should vow to win all 40 seats in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

Delivering his address at the DMK’s Mupperum Vizha to mark the birth anniversary of former Chief MinisterC.N. Annadurai, foundation day of the DMK and the birth anniversary of ‘Periyar’ E.V. Ramasamy — falling on September 15, 16 and 17 respectively — at a function in Pallikonda near Vellore town, Mr. Stalin said every cadre of the DMK should vow to ensure the party’s victory in all the seats in the forthcoming election to take the social justice movement and Dravidian model to rest of the country.

“The INDIA should win in the upcoming election to realise the ideals of social justice and Dravidian movement. If that happens, we can build AIIMS at Madurai in 15 months, get an exemption [for Tamil Nadu] from NEET and achieve much more,” he said at the event, which also coincides with the birth centenary of DMK’s former president M. Karunanidhi.

Slamming the BJP government at the Centre, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for not fulfilling its promises made before the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Mr. Stalin said the national party was “hiding from corruption charges”.

The CAG in its recent report had found irregularities by the BJP-led Union government to a tune of ₹7.5 lakh crore. Currently, the overall debt of the Union government stood at ₹155 lakh crore, he said.

On the steep rise in prices of essential commodities, Mr. Stalin recalled that when the BJP came to power in 2014, the price of an LPG cylinder was ₹420, that of petrol per litre was ₹71 and diesel per litre, ₹55. Now, the prices of these items have increased to ₹1,200, ₹102 and ₹94 respectively.