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AIADMK flays Government for power tariff increase

Staff Reporter

“The regime has failed to give uninterrupted power supply”

— Photo: K. Ganesan.

AGITATION:AIADMK cadres staging a demonstration at Sattur on Tuesday.

SATTUR: The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has criticised the State Government for having increased the electricity tariff by Re one per unit for those domestic connections consuming more than 300 units per month.

Addressing a protest demonstration organised by the party here on Tuesday, its treasurer, O. Pannerselvam, said that on the one hand the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Government had failed to give uninterrupted power supply for the past four and a half year, on the other, it had increased the tariff that would hit the common man.

“The people should vote the DMK out of power,” he said.

The “huge turnout” of people for the demonstration organised by the party in Coimbatore against the increasing price of essential commodities signalled that AIADMK would come back to power.

“The issue which was raised by the party in Tamil Nadu is now echoing in Parliament,” he said. People, who were spending Rs. 30 a month for their requirement of sugar in AIADMK rule, were now forced to shell out Rs. 90 a month. “Whereas (former Chief Minister) Jayalalithaa kept the prices of essential commodities under control, the present regime has failed to do so,” he said.

Claiming that law and order in the State had deteriorated in the present regime, he said that perpetrators of crime had lost fear in the system so much so that even a Sub-Inspector could be murdered in broad daylight.

Mr. Pannerselvam criticised the State Ministers from the district, K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran and Thangam Thennarasu, for “failing” to get a flyover or subway on the four-lane highway at Sattur-Pandanthal which had claimed nine lives in the last 18 months. Nearly 70 people had been injured.

The officials promised a roundabout at the junction, but nothing had happened so far. Speaking on the poor condition of the Sattur-Irukkangudi road, he alleged that it was the case with roads in the entire State.

The party's district secretary, K.K. Sivasamy, Rajapalayam MLA M. Chandra, and former Minister T. Inbathtamilan were among those who were present.

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