No promises fulfilled by DMK unless it benefits Karuna family: Jayalalithaa

Terming the DMK-Congress tie up for the May 16 Tamil Nadu assembly polls as a “corrupt alliance,” AIADMK supremo and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Sunday alleged that no election promise was fulfilled by DMK unless it “benefitted” party president M Karunanidhi and his family.

DMK had only fulfilled promises which benefitted his family, she said and cited their distribution of free colour televisions worth Rs 2,000 each to people, but charging Rs 3,000 for cable connections run by its family members, thus earning Rs 25,000 crore in five years.

The unfulfilled promises made by that party in 2006 included providing solar energy in remote villages, elections to cooperative societies, setting up a food processing export centre and a memorial for late actor Shivaji Ganesan,she said.

Though DMK had been charging her party with not fulfilling election promises made in 2011, her government had made good on almost all of them, coming under 54 heads, like infrastructure and education, Jayalalithaa said.

The Chief Minister was addressing a huge rally here, seeking votes for the AIADMK and alliance candidates in Coimbatore, Tirupur, Nilgiris districts and also Kerala.

On DMK-Congress alliance, she demanded to know why Karunanidhi had joined hands with a party which he had once blamed was “taking revenge” on it on the 2G spectrum scam.

She ridiculed both parties, which she said were “partners in corruption and scams like spectrum, coal, CWG and Adarsh scam” and the current Agusta Westland Chopper deal and wondered how they will give a corruption free government in Tamil Nadu.