Noting the way in which the ADMK regime was conducting elections to cooperatives in the state against al democratic norms and rules and regulations justifying the decision of the DMK not to participate in the process, DMK President Kalaignar said the ruling partymen making a laughing stock of the polls, refusing permission to discuss about the irregularities in the Assembly and democracy getting stifled in their hands.
Answering a question on the subject on April 6, Kalaignar said in spite of his writing thrice in detail about irregularities, confusions and chaos in the ongoing cooperative elections, the ADMK regime was least bothered about it and continued to permit and encourage them. It had been announced that in the first phase, 45,253 executive committee members of 4,735 societies out of 57,409 in 5,499 societies had been elected unopposed, all of them belonging to the ADMK. More and more such reports were coming, he said citing some of them.
In the elections to milk producers primary cooperative societies also, bogus members were enrolled to facilitate inclusion of ADMK men enabling them to get voting rights against the order of the High Court. As the call attention motion on these irregularities were not taken for discussion in the Assembly, members of the CPM, CPI and Puthiya Tamilagam had staged walkout on April 5. Their leaders condemned the anti-democratic manner in which the elections were conducted.
CPM daily ‘Theekkadir’ in an editorial said that the first phase of these elections were farce and cooperative elections were conducted as if they were ADMK inner party elections. It had caused concern about the fate of cooperative bodies in the hands of these people, Kalaignar said.
Asked about the contradictions in the conduct of public examinations for 10th standard, Kalaignar said the answer sheets of students for Tamil second paper examinations in Vriddhachalam got destroyed while those of English first paper in Gingee were missing. But the School Education Minister had announced that there would be no reexamination in Vriddhachalam and the marks scored in Tamil first paper would be given to second paper also, and about re-examination in Gingee consultations were on. Kalaignar said two types of solutions would affect the students more and asked the government to accept the view expressed by former School Education Minister Thangam Thennarasu to apply the same yardstick to students of both places and bring an end to the issue without any contradiction.
Kalaignar regretted that the ADMK rulers did not seem to have any worry about affecting the future of students by the continuation of confusions and chaos created in Samacheer Kalvi, textbooks and teachers’ appointment since 2011 in school examinations also.
On 25 percent reservation for poor students in private schools, Kalaignar said the Right to Free Education Act, a Central Act, came into force from April, 2010 confirmed all children in the age group of 6-14 years getting compulsory free education and private schools had to reserve 25 percent of seats to children of poor and downtrodden families. The State government had framed guidelines only to implement this Act. But some dailies in Tamil Nadu had published reports as if this concession was granted by Jayalalitha.
Answering a question on the subject on April 6, Kalaignar said in spite of his writing thrice in detail about irregularities, confusions and chaos in the ongoing cooperative elections, the ADMK regime was least bothered about it and continued to permit and encourage them. It had been announced that in the first phase, 45,253 executive committee members of 4,735 societies out of 57,409 in 5,499 societies had been elected unopposed, all of them belonging to the ADMK. More and more such reports were coming, he said citing some of them.
In the elections to milk producers primary cooperative societies also, bogus members were enrolled to facilitate inclusion of ADMK men enabling them to get voting rights against the order of the High Court. As the call attention motion on these irregularities were not taken for discussion in the Assembly, members of the CPM, CPI and Puthiya Tamilagam had staged walkout on April 5. Their leaders condemned the anti-democratic manner in which the elections were conducted.
CPM daily ‘Theekkadir’ in an editorial said that the first phase of these elections were farce and cooperative elections were conducted as if they were ADMK inner party elections. It had caused concern about the fate of cooperative bodies in the hands of these people, Kalaignar said.
Asked about the contradictions in the conduct of public examinations for 10th standard, Kalaignar said the answer sheets of students for Tamil second paper examinations in Vriddhachalam got destroyed while those of English first paper in Gingee were missing. But the School Education Minister had announced that there would be no reexamination in Vriddhachalam and the marks scored in Tamil first paper would be given to second paper also, and about re-examination in Gingee consultations were on. Kalaignar said two types of solutions would affect the students more and asked the government to accept the view expressed by former School Education Minister Thangam Thennarasu to apply the same yardstick to students of both places and bring an end to the issue without any contradiction.
Kalaignar regretted that the ADMK rulers did not seem to have any worry about affecting the future of students by the continuation of confusions and chaos created in Samacheer Kalvi, textbooks and teachers’ appointment since 2011 in school examinations also.
On 25 percent reservation for poor students in private schools, Kalaignar said the Right to Free Education Act, a Central Act, came into force from April, 2010 confirmed all children in the age group of 6-14 years getting compulsory free education and private schools had to reserve 25 percent of seats to children of poor and downtrodden families. The State government had framed guidelines only to implement this Act. But some dailies in Tamil Nadu had published reports as if this concession was granted by Jayalalitha.
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