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Firstly, the free colour television scheme. How many of you gathered here have received colour TV sets from the government? Come on, tell the truth… Very good! Now, let me tell you some basic truths. Your colour TV sets have been purchased by the government. The government’s money is your money and my money. It is money taken from us as taxes. With this money, they buy colour TV sets and distribute them to you. Can you see any programmes on that TV set? No. For programmes, you have to take a cable connection. You have to spend anything between Rs 75 to Rs 200 every month for a cable connection. And from whom do you get a cable connection? In Chennai or Coimbatore, you have to get the connection from Sun Cable Vision, popularly called Sumangali, a company belonging to Karunanidhi’s grand nephew, Kalanithi Maran. If you are in Madurai, you have to approach Royal Cable vision, a company belonging to Karunanidhi’s son Azhagiri. In other places, you have to get cable connections from operators who are affiliated to either of these companies. In short, you are given colour TV sets purchased with public money. But, the revenue from cable connections goes to Karunanidhi’s family. What a fantastic scheme, to make money!! This is what Justice Sarkaria called scientific corruption.
Rice is being made available in ration shops at one rupee a kilo. What a wonderful scheme! When I first heard of it, I was wondering how a person like Karunanidhi could have thought of such a wonderful scheme. But then the reports started coming in. On one side there were complaints that the quality of rice supplied in the public distribution system was of poor quality. It was smelly. It was rotting. It was infested with pests and even fungus… On the other side, there were allegations that large quantities of rice were being smuggled out of Tamil Nadu to other states. Put these two issues together and the truth becomes clear. Good quality rice is released from the government’s stocks for sale to the people of Tamil Nadu. Some of the old rotting stocks are also released. The old and rotten stocks find their way into the ration shops and reach the people. The good quality rice is siphoned out and gets smuggled. Officials and politicians of the DMK are hand-in-glove to this loot. Public money is looted so that these people can live in comfort. This is the truth behind the one rupee per kilo rice scheme!
Let us look at the government’s health insurance scheme launched for protecting the health of the people. 2000 crore rupees have been given from government funds to a private insurance company. The insurance scheme allows for insurance coverage of Rs. 1 lakh per family. If an average family consists of four members, then, logically, each member would be entitled to Rs 25,000. If any one family member avails of health insurance of Rs 1 lakh, then none of the others can claim insurance cover as the allotment for the family is already over. If you have chickunguniya or cholera or typhoid or chicken pox or jaundice or any other disease and you have to undergo treatment, this insurance cover is of no use. Only if you are to undergo surgery like heart surgery, brain surgery, etc, can you avail of coverage under the health insurance scheme. Such operations can be done in all government hospitals free of cost. That does not require insurance coverage. In private hospitals, if you have to undergo a heart operation or a brain operation, it will cost 3 to 4 lakh rupees. Out of that, you can get a maximum of Rs1,00,000 as insurance. What about the balance? Who will pay for it? Instead of this scheme, the government could have constructed advanced, high-tech hospitals in every district for Rs 2000 crores. Then every one of you can get free treatment for everything, from a common cold to a major surgery.
Normally, when you take an insurance policy, you pay a premium. The person who canvasses and works out the policy for you is called the agent. The insurance company pays this agent 20% of your premium amount as commission. In the case of the Tamil Nadu Government’s health insurance scheme, Rs 2000 crores is the premium amount. The agent’s commission works out to Rs 400 crores! Who is the agent in this case who has pocketed the 400 crores? Is it Karunanidhi himself or his son?
If Rs 400 crores has been given to the Karunanidhi family in this single deal, then where is the money ? Will it be available in their homes if the income tax department raids them? You will understand if I tell you who are really running this private insurance company and about their close connections with the Karunanidhi family.
It is a company called Star Insurance. This company belongs to a bigger international company called the ETA-Star Group, with its headquarters in Dubai. Its headquarters may be in Dubai, but it is run by people from Tamil Nadu. It is this ETA Group that has constructed the new Secretariat complex in Chennai for Rs. 700 crores. This group has another company called Genex Exim. This company is a stake holder in Swan Telecom, one of the beneficiaries of the 2-G Spectrum scam in which more than 1 lakh 90,000 crore rupees which were due to the Central government were siphoned out under the direction of Telecom Minister A Raja. This ETA group is close to Karunanidhi right from the 1970s. They had a film distribution company called Crescent Films, which distributed Karunanidhi’s film, Pillayo Pillai, in which he launched his son Mu Ka Muthu as a competitor to Puratchi Thalaivar MGR!! All the money being paid to the ETA-Star group under various schemes, government money, YOUR MONEY, is being sent to the headquarters of the group in Dubai. From there, it is quietly being distributed to the foreign accounts of Karunanidhi’s wives, sons, daughters, grandsons, grand daughters… It is with this money that they are buying lands. It is with this money that they are buying colleges and educational institutions. It is with this money that they are producing films… It is all your money. They are enjoying it while your are left to handle price rise, infectious diseases and a variety of other problems.
My dear brothers and sisters, one family is making fools of all of us. One family is looting us. Nowhere in the world, not even in dictatorial countries, can you find a situation where the father is the chief minister of a state. A son is the deputy chief minister. Another son and a nephew are Union ministers. A daughter is a Member of Parliament. A close associate of the daughter is another Union Minister… Between them, they own about 25 TV channels. They own newspapers. They own cable distribution networks. They own colleges. They own 4 film production companies. They own cinema theatres. They own lakhs of acres of lands and estates. They own shopping complexes. They own printing presses. A man, who, by his own confession, came from Tiruvarur, travelling ticketless, without money in his pocket, has earned all this from politics. Today, anybody who questions him is suppressed. IT raids are conducted on people or organizations which do not bow down to the family's wishes. The police are let loose against anyone who dares to oppose them. Even lawyers inside the Madras High court have been brutally attacked by the police. Anybody who asks them questions is murdered. If you have any doubts, you can ask the ghost of Tha Kiruttinan. With their money power and political power, they can put innocent persons in prison. And they can get hardened criminals released from prison. Under them law and order has degenerated. Murders and robberies have become everyday occurrences all over Tamil Nadu. You have seen students brutally attacking each other inside the law college premises. You have seen polling booths being taken over by rowdies. You have seen bogus votes being cast…
This is a dangerous situation. Tamil Nadu, which was once the pride of India has now become the shame of India. Even States like Bihar have overtaken us. If this state of affairs continues, we will all cease to exist.
For the sake of Tamil Nadu, for our own sake, this government has to be over-turned. The power to do this is with you. Don’t allow yourselves to be bribed. Let us take a pledge today, right now, to join hands to over-turn this regime of a single family and usher in a good government. Let us all take a pledge to vote for the AIADMK. Let us all take a pledge to save Tamil Nadu and the Tamil people.
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