AIADMK can't stomach DMK's popularity: Nehru
AIADMK
general secretary
Edappadi K Palaniswami
's 'Uruttugalum Thiruttugalum' campaign must be referring to 10 years of his party's govt, said municipal administration minister K N Nehru in Trichy on Friday. In a rebuttal to the opposition leader's campaign, the
DMK
principal secretary said AIADMK is unable to stomach the increasing popularity of the DMK govt.
Nehru was inspecting the Ungaludan Stalin camp organised for wards 51 and 52 at a wedding hall in Bhima Nagar. "He (EPS) may be referring to the bluffs of the 10 years of the previous AIADMK governance. AIADMK is scared of our new members' enrolment camps and approaching the court. They failed to utilise the opportunity given by the people during their term, but we are fulfilling our promises," he said. Nehru said that welfare schemes are being implemented one after the other by the DMK govt.
"Our CM writes letters every week to the Union govt seeking funds for the state for Jal Jeevan scheme, school education department, and MGNREGA schemes," he added. Around 900 applications were submitted in the camp from two wards to avail the monthly financial assistance scheme for women family heads.
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