Pattali Makkal Katchi founder S. Ramadoss has termed the cash-for-vote practice as the political cancer in Tamil Nadu.
Addressing
the party’s Women’s Conference for Political Renaissance at the
Coronation Grounds here on Saturday, Mr. Ramadoss said that the State
topped in bribing voters.
People should put it in
writing before their houses that their votes were not for sale and drive
away anyone who approached them with money to buy their votes.
The
two Dravidian parties had ruined several families by opening Tasmac
liquor outlets at every nook and corner of the State, he said.
The
governments in the State had been dependent on the revenue earned from
liquor, with which freebies were provided to the people, he alleged.
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| Pattali Makkal Katchi MP candidate G.K. Mani distributing awareness pamphlets about vote not for sale in Krishnagiri |
Attributing
the crime rate to free availability of alcohol, he said as many as
20,300 crimes were recorded across the State against women. Of these,
2380 were rape cases. This showed deterioration in the law and order.
Women were not able walk in public places, he said.
PMK
was the only party, along with all community and religious leaders,
fighting for implementation of total prohibition in the State for the
last 35 years.
The days of the AIADMK rule were being
counted. The PMK would capture power in the State in the 2016 Assembly
elections and would introduce total prohibition first.
Mr.
Ramadoss also distributed head-bands and placards containing the
message ``My Vote is not for Sale’’ to the youth and women members of
the party.
Earlier, party’s state president and
Krishnagiri Lok Sabha candidate G.K. Mani distributed handbills on the
ill-effects of consuming liquor at the five road junction in
Krishnagiri. A stage show on the ill-effects was organised.
The
resolutions passed at the conference included the demand for total
prohibition, protection of the rights of women and their safety and
parents’ approval be made mandatory for marriage of girls before they
attained the age of 21.
