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PMK for quota from kindergarten

VILLUPURAM: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi can consider the suggestion of educationist Vasanthi Devi for introduction of reservation from the kindergarten level, including in elite schools, Pattali Makkal Katchi founder S. Ramadoss said on Thursday.

Addressing a press conference at Thailapuram, he said only through a “common and neighbourhood school system,” could the malaise of exorbitant fee collection be eradicated.

Though several commissions had recommended the system in the past four decades, it was yet to become a reality. Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi who, too, mooted the idea, had called for patience. The State Government, he said, should make an announcement on when the system would come into being.

On the Sethusamudhram project, Dr. Ramadoss said he was only echoing the Chief Minister’s view that whatever be the alignment, the project should be speedily implemented. Therefore, there was no room for any doubts that he was airing someone else’s view. Referring to Dravida Kazhagam leader K. Veeramani’s remark that “seeking an alternate alignment is an attempt to cripple the project, so the PMK should choose the political path that does not seek a change in the alignment,” Dr. Ramadoss said Mr. Veeramani pretended to be more loyal than the king.

When the whole of Tamil Nadu, including the PMK, condemned the arrest of Mr. Karunanidhi in July 2001, Mr. Veeramani said both Mr. Karunanidhi and Murasoli Maran, a former Union Minister, were enacting a drama to destabilise the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam regime.

Mr. Veeramani, who had the knack of assuming the role of propaganda secretary of any ruling dispensation, should confine himself to upholding the ideologies of E.V. Ramasamy Naicker, he said.

Dr. Ramadoss said Mr. Veeramani did not have any locus standi to dictate terms to the PMK on the political stand it should take.

He said only a judicial inquiry into the phone tapping allegations could clear the sullied image of the government.

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