Nation in ‘state of drift’, says Jayalalithaa
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CM J. Jayalalithaa lashed out at the Centre Wednesday. “The average citizen feels there is no government at the Centre.
The country is in a state of drift,” she said after distributing welfare assistance to AIADMK members at the party headquarters in Chennai.
In a brief interaction with the media, she slammed the Congress-led UPA government, which completed three years Tuesday.
“Everyone knows what the situation is,” she said of UPA-II performance.
On the Presidential election, CM said she spoke to party leaders she knows.
Ms Jayalalithaa was referring to her phone calls Sunday to L.K. Advani of BJP, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat and TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu seeking support for NCP leader and former Lok Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma.
About the response from these leaders, she said, “I made a request to certain parties and leaders I know well for support to Sangma in the Presidential poll. I prefer to wait and watch.”
Tears will turn into weapons: Jaya
Tamil Nadu Chief minister J Jayalalithaa hit out at the Congress led UPA government at the Centre for steeply hiking the petrol prices and demanded its immediate roll back.
“I demand the centre immediately withdraw the price hike, which will severely affect the poor and middle class.
If the centre fails to withdraw, the tears of the people would turn into a weapon to cause the downfall of the anti-people coalition government soon,” she warned.
The steep hike of Rs 7.50 per liter amounted to revenge on the people, she said adding “the UPA government has given the gift of price hike to the people, marking its third anniversary.”
Flaying the centre, she said whenever the centre hiked the petrol prices, it comes out with lame excuses, citing the increase in price of crude in the international market and decline of Indian rupee against other currencies. “This is clearly unreasonable and unacceptable,” she said.
She added the hike could have been avoided by reducing the profits of the oil companies among other things. reducing the tax on petrol and checking the falling rupee value
Pointing out that both Public sector and private oil companies were making huge profits and paying dividends to stake holders, Ms Jayalalithaa said the hike could have been avoided by reducing the profits of the oil companies, reducing the tax on petrol and checking the falling rupee value.
Holding that the UPA government’s anti-people and wrong economic policies were responsible for price rise and steep decline in rupee value she said the latest hike had only added “fuel to the fire.”
There was no doubt the hike would cause a dent in the monthly budget of the poor and middle class and plummet their economic status, she said.
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