“DMK Government’s recent decisions, announcements, setting up of panels, trying to import COVID-19 vaccines are clear indicators, that it is trying for a separate state in a couched manner and is at par with the Central Government regarding power.”
The homework for the increased autonomy and more powers to be developed to the States has gained ground last January itself. It is a grand design by DMK funded movement with the participation of 180 smaller parties, Abrahamic outfits, and anti-national, urban Naxals, which organized a series of online conferences. Sitting MPs, MLAs, and foreign delegates attended the conference with one goal in mind: to assist Stalin in becoming CM and cause turmoil in the country. It came out with a “United States of India” slogan and a separate flag for the State (the organizer carried a detailed story on that). The DMK captured power by hiding its failures and using all the tricks in its bag to divert the attention of the public. But slowly and stealthily, it is trying to implement its much-avowed autonomy for Tamil Nadu. It was the prime electoral plan of the Dravidian parties. The movement kicked off with heroic speeches and met its end in a damp anti-climax. Had the DMK continued with its demand for secession, the party would not exist and will not be eligible to contest polls. DMK founder Annadurai discarded the war cry of separatism and said,” Dravida Nadu or the graveyard are our only two options.” Following the then PM Lal Bahadur Shastri’s warning that propaganda for secession would be put down, if it exceeds limits.
The DMK, which came to power after losing two consecutive terms to AIADMK, with M. K. Stalin at the helm, who is considered being a novice to lead the state, tweeted that “I belong to the Dravidian stock”, minutes after he was sworn in as CM of Tamil Nadu.
DMK government has been saying repeatedly, it would pass a resolution in the state assembly to scrap NEET, NEP, Farm laws, and CAA in the upcoming budget session. He said the CAA was against the “interests of minorities”. He also wrote a letter to nine Chief Ministers seeking their support to oppose the Draft Indian Ports bill 2021 dealing with the management of minor ports. He suggested in the letter for a joint action to dilute the powers already vested with the states.
In the last GST council meet, TN Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan had raised the demand for more votes for bigger states and made some offensive comments against Goa. M. K. Stalin, in all his communications with the Centre using the term word “Union” instead of Central Government. Justifying the usage of the term, CM Stalin recalled that the DMK in its poll manifesto in 1957 itself had used the term ‘Indian Union’. The constitution too described India as a ‘union of states’. Elaborating further in the state Assembly he said, ” we have used it and will continue to use it” when BJP floor leader Nainar Nagendran asked whether there was any motive behind using the word ‘ Union”. Stalin replied DMK had started using the term ‘Union Government’ instead of Central Government’ since it took over the reins. He defended by saying ‘ it is not a social crime to use the word Union’. He said India was constituted by states. Pasumpon, founder and president of Anna Dravida Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam, a letter pad, and DMK Benami outfit, said in an interview with Liberty Tamil YouTube channel that the use of ‘Union’ is a prelude to raising the demand for a separate Tamil Nadu. He said using the term “union’ is a prelude and warning to the demand for a separate Tamil Nadu. He warned they would not hesitate to launch a separate Tamil Nadu movement if the Central Government interferes with Tamil Nadu’s language, culture, food, and other livelihood matters.
Stalin said, “the DMK is an elephant that none could tame (fact: when MGR and Jayalalithaa were alive when it was decimated), and the party would stand on the four principles of social justice, self-respect, linguistic and ethnic affinity, and securing the state’s rights.”
Puthiya Tamizhagam Chief Dr. K Krishnaswamy has written a letter to TN Governor Banwari Lal Purohit, by saying “as a patriot, I am extremely sorry to inform that some political parties in Tamil Nadu are indulging in tarnishing the image of the Indian nation and acting against the integrity of the nation very recently.” He said “the DMK has been extensively using the word “Ondriya Arasu” in recent times to deliberately distort what is said in the Constitution as a Union of States and to associate the Indian Union Government with the “Block-level” panchayat system. Thus it is degrading the Central Government to the level of Ondriya Arasu that is” Block-level governance, in which they are not ready to use the word i.e. India or Bharat. But whereas they are calling our state as Government of Tamil Nadu. Members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and the incumbent Chief Minister and Ministers were sworn in with the commitment to abide by the unity and sovereignty of this Government. But their actions are against the integrity of our nation” Krishnaswami pointed out “English text of the Governor’s address, they have used the word “Ondriya Arasu” in the paragraphs 6,7,9,13,14,15,25,32,34,38,40,56&58, they did not even use the name ‘India’ wherever it should have been mentioned, and it was deliberately omitted. I was shocked after seeing the word “Ondriya Arasu” in the Tamil a version of the Governor’s address too”. He warns in the letter “The campaign of DMK against our Indian nation calling it as Ondriya Arasu politically motivated and ill-conceived and, it will pave the way for the wrong precedents throughout India.” “I request your Excellency to call for the Assembly records of 21st June 2021 for Governor’s Address both in English and Tamil and to verify wherever the word “Ondriya Arasu” is used purposefully instead of Indian Union or Government of India and, it should be rectified.
It is high time the Central Government should note the recent developments with Intelligence outputs to prevent Kashmir, Nagaland, Mizoram type secession movement gains ground in peace-loving Tamil soil. Already Naxal groups and religious fundamentalist groups are actively unfettered in the state.
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