INDIA GENERAL ELECTIONS 2009
DMK Election 2009 Manifesto
CHENNAI: DMK chief Karuanidhi released its manifesto today (2nd April 2009). DMK’s election manifesto promises hutless villages and slumless cities in the State in the next five years. This will be achieved “without any difference of caste and creed, all hut dwellers will be provided concrete houses.”
DMK also proposes the introduction of bullet train services between Chennai – Madurai and Chennai – Coimbatore and a dedicated freight corridor between Chennai and New Delhi.
- Efforts will be made to set up an Indian Institute of Science in Tamil Nadu. The party will lend its voice to raise the ceiling for income tax exemption from Rs.1.5 lakh to Rs.2.5 lakh.
- Increase of minimum support price for paddy, sugar cane and agricultural produce;
-speeding up river-interlinking, increasing the number of days of employment under the NREGS including Dalit Christians in the Scheduled Caste category; and
- Initiative to mitigate the impact of recession on agriculture, industry and service sectors are among other elements of the manifesto.
- On Sri Lankan Tamil’s issue, it says: “DMK is of the opinion that the issue should not be used for electoral gains.
- It firmly opposes any amendment to the Constitution for a uniform civil code that usurps the religious and human rights of minorities in India.”
- It will fight to remove the creamy layer clause in the reservation policy and insist that the Centre accept the Sudarsana Nachiappan Committee recommendation to give statutory status for government orders regarding reservation for SCs, STs, OBCs.
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