Apologise to farmers, history will not pardon you: Stalin tells EPS

Taking exception to EPS defending the agriculture Bills moved by the Centre, Stalin said that 13 political parties across the country, including even a few allies of the BJP were strongly opposing the Bills, while AIADMK was among the four parties supporting it.

“Instead of releasing the statement, the CM could have told farmers with folded hands that ‘I am in an alliance with the BJP and supported the Bills to enjoy the protection of the BJP to save my chief ministership, my ministers and myself from the corruptions we were involved in now and in the coming six months. So, pardon me’,” said Stalin in a statement issued on Sunday.

Stating that the CM should have either read the Bills thoroughly or got someone to read it for him, the DMK president said the height of the CM’s meaningless act was his justification of the support to the Bill after releasing a statement authored by someone. Reiterating that farmers would lose their market freedom and would not get minimum support price and majority of the unorganised small farmers would be affected by the agriculture Bills, Stalin said that history would not pardon EPS for supporting the anti-farmer Bills in favour of the ruling BJP despite claiming to be a farmer himself.

Stalin also added that the CM would escape from corruption cases by remaining in the safety net offered by the BJP for another six months, but would not escape the punishment of the people.