Chennai: The summoning of all TVK MLAs to Chennai for an emergency consultative meeting on Wednesday is seen as a bid by the high command to address the crisis in the party brought about by a series of unsavoury incidents involving party leaders who had brought a bad name to the government and organisation through their actions.
On Tuesday, Chief Minister and party founder C Joseph Vijay called for the meeting and summoned his party legislators to Chennai for an emergency consultative meeting, chaired by him in the presence of general secretary and Minister N Anand at the headquarters in Panaiyur on November 11.
Called amidst growing political pressure and scrutiny over the conduct of certain MLAs and other leaders and the inability of the government to control the rise in crime, the meeting is apparently aimed at salvaging the overall reputation of the party and the six-month-old government.
Launching a scathing attack on the government, DMK president M K Stalin, in a social media message on Tuesday, said Law and order in the State was in the ICU and Governance in a coma, citing the 17 murders in one day’ and a few other incidents.
He said the dignity and position of the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly had been buried in a hold and also referred to a TVK MLA allegedly sending an obscene message to a female district collector. Stating that there was no control over the elected representatives of the TVK, Stalin said ‘Vijay was a party time chief minister and a full time content creator with no sense of responsibility.
However, State Minister for School Education Rajmohan assured to hold an impartial enquiry into the charge of sending the obscene message to district collector J E Padmaja by Kallakurichi MLA Arul Vignesh, who had denied the incident.
Rajmohan told reporters that the State administration under Vijay followed a policy of zero-tolerance towards women’s harassment and that a thorough investigation would be conducted into the allegation.
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