[lg policy] DMK president M.K. Stalin on Tuesday released party’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections

[Harold Schiffman]

[image: DMK president M.K. Stalin releases party's manifesto for the Lok
Sabha elections at Anna Arivalayam in Chennai on Tuesday.]

DMK president M.K. Stalin releases party's manifesto for the Lok Sabha
elections at Anna Arivalayam in Chennai on Tuesday.
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Assuring to provide honest governance and secular administration to the
people, DMK president M.K. Stalin on Tuesday released party’s manifesto for
the Lok Sabha elections and by-elections to 18 Assembly constituencies in
the State.

The manifesto for the Parliamentary Elections 2019 dealt with macro issues
such as Central-State relations, separate budget for agriculture, education
in the State list, abolition of NEET, waiver of educational loans, free
rail for students and return to old pension scheme among others.

To unseat the ruling AIADMK government, the DMK has made constituency-wise
promises for the Assembly constituencies for which by-elections will be
held along with the Lok Sabha polls on April 18.

In continuation with its language policy that helped it capture power in
the 1960s, Mr. Stalin said the party will urge the Centre to declare Tamil
as co-official language in all the Central government offices, institutions
and nationalised commercial banks in the State.

On devolution of funds to States, the manifesto said 60% of the total tax
revenue of the Centre should be shared with the States and insisted that
only the Inter-State Council should decide the terms of reference of the
constitution of the Finance Commission. Also, the criteria for allocation
of tax revenue should give equal weightage for performance and equity so
that States such as Tamil Nadu
<https://www.thehindu.com/tag/204-81/tamil-nadu/?utm=bodytag>get their due
share that will encourage further growth.

On petrol and diesel prices, Mr. Stalin said the Administered Pricing
Mechanism will be reintroduced to control prices. Likewise, the LPG
cylinder price will be fixed after deducting the subsidy amount. Mr. Stalin
pitched for increasing IT exemption limit to ₹8 lakh.

The DMK will press for appointment of one crore youth, who have studied up
to 10th standard, as road workers for maintaining roads in the country.
Similar to the DMK’s *Makkal Nala Paniyalargal* in Tamil Nadu, the Centre
should employ 50 lakh women as people’s welfare workers in the country, he
said.

A committee with T.R. Baalu as the co-ordinator and comprising Subbulakshmi
Jagadeesan, V.P. Duraisami, Kanimozhi, Tiruchi Siva, A. Raja, T.K.S.
Elangovan and Prof. A. Ramasamy prepared the DMK's election manifesto.

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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