National parties could not focus on the welfare of the people within municipal corporations, AIADMK supremo and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa stated here. She pointed out that no good would be done by electing a non-AIADMK candidate as the mayor of Coimbatore when more than 80 per cent of the councillors in Coimbatore Corporation belonged to AIADMK, she said.

Speaking at an election meeting in support of party candidate P Rajkumar for the Coimbatore mayoral poll, she said people here would not get any benefit by voting for candidates of national parties or for independents in the fray. She said generally, the focus of the national parties was around Delhi and the Central Government and not on the State. She said when national parties did not even think about Tamil Nadu, how would they think about people of Coimbatore.

‘Joint family’

The Chief Minister said ‘India is like a joint-family’ that could be ruled by a single party. But there were smaller families like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andra Pradesh and Telengana. It will be only the heads of families of these sub-families who would be interested in their welfare and not the head of the joint family, she said.

She asserted that it was only AIADMK that was interested in the welfare of the people of Tamil Nadu alone.

She said the CPI(M) too, which has put up a mayoral candidate in Coimbatore, had on the Mullaiperiyar dam issue took different stand in Kerala and Tamil Nadu while its Central leadership chose to be silent.

The Chief Minister also detailed welfare measures taken up by her Government and infrastructure projects under implementation/announced for Coimbatore and sought people’s mandate for the AIADMK candidate.

Related Topics