Help restore MGR rule: Moopanar

By T.Ramarksihnan

CHENNAI, APRIL 30. The TMC president, Mr. G. K. Moopanar, today launched his election campaign and made `restoration of MGR rule' the focus of his appeal to voters in the city and suburbs.

Beginning his campaign from Shastri Nagar at Adyar, Mr. Moopanar, who has just recovered from a hip fracture, undertook a nearly four-hour tour this evening, ending at suburban Poonamalee.

The TMC founder appealed to the electorate to vote for the AIADMK and its allies and help restore MGR rule in Tamil Nadu. He urged them to wholeheartedly support Ms. Jayalalitha and enable her to become the Chief Minister again.

In Shastri Nagar, which falls under the Mylapore constituency, he addressed an election meeting from a stage. But in the other areas he spoke from a van.

The AICC general secretary, Ms. Margaret Alva, who accompanied the TMC leader, charged the DMK with keeping Ms. Jayalalitha out of the electoral fray for fear of ``confronting her directly''.

Criticising the projection of the DMK youth wing leader, Mr. M. K. Stalin, as the successor Chief Minister, Ms. Alva mockingly remarked ``Mr. Stalin may be a rising son, but the DMK's sun is now setting''.

Emphasising that the ``unholy alliance of the DMK and the BJP should be crushed'', she argued that the DMK, which formed part of the NDA, was also party to the ``mess created by the Vajpayee Government with the bungling on the Bangladesh border and the Tehelka expose''.

The TNCC president, Mr. E. V. K. S. Elangovan, also participated in the campaign which covered, among others, the T.Nagar and Saidapet constituencies in the city.

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