Stalin indulging in deception on Katchatheevu problem: Palaniswami

Joining problem with Chief Minister M.Okay. Stalin over his reported competition on Katchatheevu problem hours earlier in Ramanathapuram district, AIADMK normal secretary Edappadi Okay. Palaniswami on Friday (October 3, 2025) charged that the previous, by projecting the AIADMK as being bored with retrieving the islet within the pursuits of fishermen, was indulging in “drama and deception”.

History establishes that the then DMK authorities in 1974 below Chief Ministership of M. Karunanidhi failed to stop the Congress authorities on the Centre from handing over the island “on a platter” to Sri Lanka. The AIADMK led by late Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, then again, had filed a case earlier than the Supreme Court on the difficulty (in 2008) calling for retrieval of the island, Mr. Palaniswami mentioned, throughout his highway present at Palacode in Dharmapuri district.

The folks of the State, he mentioned, is not going to overlook that the DMK, whereas having fun with energy for 11 years on the Centre, did not take up cudgels for the fishermen in wrestle. “Don’t assume you may get away by levelling such expenses with a watch on vote financial institution. The AIADMK is maintaining a relentless watch on no matter you converse and can give a befitting response,” Mr. Palaniswami mentioned.

The AIADMK will stay focussed on folks’s welfare, in contrast to Mr. Stalin’s DMK authorities, which, he claimed, was intent on perpetuating household rule. Mr. Palaniswami, whereas acknowledging the importance of Mr. Stalin’s instant go to to Karur after the stampede to console the households of 41 victims questioned the latter for not having responded the identical method after the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy that had claimed 68 lives of poor folks, largely these belonging to Scheduled Caste teams.

The DMK, Mr. Palaniswami mentioned, was unfit to touch upon the ideology of AIADMK within the context of its alliance with the BJP. Seeking to buttress his assertion, the AIADMK normal secretary displayed a poster depicting Mr. Karunanidhi and former Union Minister Murasoli Maran sitting on both sides of the then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and collectively adjusting the mike in entrance from either side.

Further, the BJP and AIADMK have been on a typical plank to uproot the “corrupt” DMK regime, Mr. Palaniswami mentioned, and questioned the DMK’s presence in INDIA bloc portraying conflicting political posturing of unison on the Centre, and indulgence in bickering amongst constituents within the States of Kerala, Delhi and West Bengal.

It was ridiculous on Mr. Stalin’s half to forged aspersions on the go to of NDA panel of BJP MPs to Karur within the aftermath of the stampede, at a time when your entire nation was grieving over the tragedy.

“Also, being in alliance with Congress that had jailed DMK leaders, together with you (Mr. Stalin), below MISA (Maintenance of Internal Security Act), your speak about ideology lacks substance,” Mr. Palaniswami mentioned.

There was no security anymore for folks in Tamil Nadu. The rape of a lady by two police constables in Tiruvannamalai district was the newest working example of the breakdown in legislation and order state of affairs within the State, Mr. Palaniswami mentioned, throughout his highway present that coated Pennagaram and Papparpatti.