Chief Minister M.Okay. Stalin on Friday blamed the earlier AIADMK government for offering improper data to the Supreme Court and the Union government by under-reporting deaths on account of road accidents.
Responding to Leader of the Opposition Edappadi Okay. Palaniswami’s criticism, made on Thursday relating to the absence of knowledge on road accident deaths in a selected coverage observe, Mr. Stalin, in his reply in the course of the dialogue on budgetary calls for for his departments, stated the data had been offered within the coverage observe of “Home-Transport” Department. According to him, the current government had furnished the right information not like the earlier AIADMK government. The variety of deaths had come all the way down to 17,884 in 2022 from 18,129 in 2021. He stated owing to quite a few initiatives taken by the government, particularly his discipline inspections, the variety of crimes had lowered noticeably. For occasion, in comparison with the primary quarter of 2022, homicide instances had come down by 13% and dacoity and theft instances lowered by 18% within the first quarter of 2023.
He stated the variety of instances could have elevated in some classes on account of extra folks coming ahead to file complaints, owing to humanitarian strategy of the police, appointment of receptionists in police stations and elevated consciousness created by the police. However, not like the earlier government, the instances had been instantly registered and solved, he stated. Though there could also be some shortcomings within the functioning of the police, they had been swiftly being rectified, he stated.
He accused Mr. Palaniswami of creating contradictory statements relating to the Kodanad estate-dacoity-cum-murder case. Referring to the assertion that his social gathering would demand CBI investigation within the case, Mr. Stalin stated Mr. Palaniswami had expressed approval for contemporary investigation by the CB-CID and later questioned additional investigation into the case. “Why this contradiction? Why this stumbling?” he requested, including that the current government needn’t have needed to examine had the earlier government had cracked it.
Referring to Mr. Palaniswami’s assertion relating to the anti-Sterlite protest in Thoothukudi in 2018, Mr. Stalin requested why Mr. Palaniswami was nonetheless hesitant to disclose who gave the orders to the police to fireside at protesters who had been finishing up their motion peacefully for 100 days.
In distinction, underneath the current government, he stated the way wherein the police dealt with the violence following the demise of a schoolgirl in Kallakurichi district was an instance of skillfully and responsibly deal with a folks’s protest with none deaths.