Monday 15 July 2013

Tughlaq Durbar!

In his epistle on April 28, Kalaignar pointed out that the daily of the ruling party had published on its first page in bold letters about the power projects announced by Jayalalitha under rule 110 in the Assembly on 25th as “Rs.30,602 crore plan to convert TN into a power surplus state” and this amount varied in every daily and asked what was true?
As if to concede what Kalaignar had written was correct, Jayalalitha again read out yet another statement under rule 110 in the Assembly on 30th stating, “The total estimate of plans announced by me in the Assembly under rule 110 had been published differently in various dailies. Hence in order that people of TN correctly know what is the total estimated amount I inform details” and read out the amount for each plan.
It implies that even newspapers cannot properly understand statements read out by the CM under rule 110 and prepared by some ministers and officials. The second statement read out by her makes clear that the ruling party daily’s report of Rs.30,000 crore worth plans was wrong  and the truth is only plans for Rs.16,350 crore. A statement under rule 110 for the Chief Minister to announce a plan and another statement under rule 110 to give clarification for the earlier one. Is this not looking like ‘Tughlaq durbar’? Only her apologist ‘Tughlaq’ say!

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