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Tamil Nadu
Vijayakant seeks plan for women’s development
Staff Reporter
TIRUCHI: A special plan, exclusively aimed at women’s development and improving their living standards, should be conceived and implemented within the Five-Year Plan framework, the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam founder Vijayakant said on Sunday.
Women constituted a significant portion of the country’s working class and there was a strong case for implementing a special plan for their overall development.
Though governments kept talking about reservation for women, they have not given due recognition to women, he charged addressing a public meeting organised by the party in connection with the International Women’s Day here.
Despite several announcements on welfare schemes, poverty was rampant in the country and the rising prices of essential commodities added to the burden of the poor and middle class sections.
Farmers continued to suffer with no solution to their problems.
Fishermen were being shot every day. Inter-state river disputes continued to remain a vexed problem, he said questioning the achievements of the United Progressive Alliance government.
Referring to the demolition of a marriage hall owned by him at Chennai, he asserted that he would not succumb to “pressure and indirect attempts to cow me down.”
“Calculated attempts are made to malign me, whenever I rake up issues concerning people. Those in power were unable to digest when I raise queries. I will continue to raise questions whosoever might be in power. I have entered politics with people’s backing and people are my allies,” he said.
Dares major parties
Pointing out that his party had contested the elections alone within three years of its birth, he dared the major parties in Tamil Nadu to go it alone in the elections. Party presidium chairman Panruti Ramachandran and others spoke.
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