TN elections 2021: Rs 12,110 crore farm loan waiver announced
India
Published: Saturday, February 6, 2021, 10:01 [IST]
Chennai, Feb 06: A few months ahead of Assembly elections, the AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu on Friday announced waiver of Rs 12,110 crore crop loans availed by 16.43 lakh farmers from cooperative banks. Making the announcement in the state assembly, Chief Minister K Palaniswami said the scheme would come into immediate effect and a Government Order shall be issued while the required financial allocation would be made in the interim budget.
Asserting Iam a farmer too, Palaniswami said it was his first duty to address the grievances of the farming people and ruling party MLAs welcomed his announcement by thunping the desks while the opposition benches were vacant.
TN elections 2021: Get ready for the political battle, hints Sasikala
India
Updated: Monday, February 1, 2021, 16:23 [IST]
Chennai, Feb 01: Expelled AIADMK leader V K Sasikala was discharged from a hospital here on Sunday after recovering from COVID-19, days after she was set free by the prison officials on completion of her jail term in a corruption case, authorities said.
Sending a strong signal, Sasikala, a close aide of late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, travelled in a car that sported the AIADMK flag from the hospital, with the ruling party questioning the propriety of her action when she had been ousted from the party.
DMK President M K Stalin on Friday launched his 30-day pre-election campaign in poll-bound Tamil Nadu here and vowed to deliver a pro-people government with focus on development if his party was voted to power in the coming Assembly elections, likely to be held in April-May.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Saturday once again dared DMK president M K Stalin to debate with him on corruption and said the party chief was not competent to be a leader Campaigning here for the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state, Palaniswami said Stalin has no courage to face the AIADMK directl
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will hit the campaign trail on Saturday in Tamil Nadu where assembly elections are likely to be held in April-May, party state unit chief K S Azhagiri said on Wednesday.