Overview
- At a Tiruporur rally, AIADMK leader Edappadi K. Palaniswami accused Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and allies of spreading falsehoods about the rural employment law that replaced MGNREGA.
- He said the Centre has raised guaranteed rural work from 100 to 125 days under the VB-GRAMG framework and asserted that DMK claims of dilution were misleading.
- He promised that an AIADMK government would increase guaranteed work to 150 days and raise wages under the programme.
- He alleged the DMK halted the earlier AIADMK free-laptop scheme after distributing about 52.5 lakh devices at a cost of ₹7,350 crore and claimed the ruling party’s new 10 lakh laptop pledge is election-driven.
- Leveling corruption charges, he cited Enforcement Directorate claims tied to TASMAC and an alleged ‘cash-for-jobs’ case, and he pressed the state to give ₹5,000 to every ration-card family as a Pongal cash gift.