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RISING TO THE OCCASION: Local Administration Minister M. K.Stalin addressing the DMK Youth Wing conference in Tirunelveli on Sunday. TIRUNELVELI: Politics has become a “part-time business” for some parties, M.K. Stalin, DMK deputy general secretary and its Youth Wing leader, has said. While refusing to name anyone, Mr. Stalin came down heavily on leaders who were aspiring to become Chief Minister immediately after launching their parties. Addressing the party’s first ever youth wing conference at Palayamkottai on Sunday, Mr. Stalin recalled that the DMK after being founded by C.N. Annadurai in 1949 could come to power in the State only after 18 years of tireless work and sacrifices of the former Chief Minister and various leaders of the Dravidian movement. Now, leaders of some of the “instant political parties, which treat politics as a part-time business,” were carrying out all their moves only with an eye on the post of Chief Minister. Criticising some of the parties for making repeated attempts to destabilise the DMK government, he asked them why a Government that had “introduced several welfare measures such as distribution of 2-acres of land to landless poor and marginal farmers and farmhands, marriage assistance to poor women below poverty line, 3 eggs a week for schoolchildren, rice for Rs. 2 a kg, free colour televisions, free house site pattas etc should be destabilised.” Mr. Stalin made it clear that responsibilities come to people who toil and persevere and not for those waiting in the sidelines to grab their chance. “We do not believe in chasing positions of power or responsibilities. These should come to us.” He announced that the youth wing would celebrate the birth centenary of Annadurai for 365 days across the State from September 15. He recalled the formation of the Youth Wing in a barber shop at Gopalapuram in Chennai in 1968, and its inauguration by party’s general secretary K. Anbazhagan in the presence of its president M. Karunanidhi. “The Youth Wing has grown in all aspects to become a very powerful organisation in the party over the years and hence the rally taken out on Saturday in connection with the conference turned out to be a historic event,” he noted amid thunderous applause from the cadre. DMK Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi said Mr. Karunanidhi would ensure 33 per cent reservation for women in elected bodies. “Many ask us why we don’t ask for 50 per cent reservation, but I tell them: Give us 33 per cent reservation and we will make it 50 per cent.” While Union Minister for Communications A. Raja and former MLA Ela. Pugazhaenthi narrated the DMK’s sustained triumphant struggle against “oppression" in the society, Thamizhachi Thangapandian, who hoisted the party’s flag on Saturday to mark the two-day conclave, appealed to the youth to understand and practise the principles of the party.
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