‘Cordial ties with BJP only to get schemes’

Trichy | Tuesday | 18th September, 2018

Summary:

more-inThe Tamil Nadu government was maintaining a cordial relationship with the Centre to bring good schemes to the State. Tamil Nadu was supposed to receive funds to the tune of ?17,000 crore from the Centre. But politically, the AIADMK had no truck with the BJP, Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker and AIADMK propaganda secretary M.

Thambi Durai said here on Monday. He hoped Governor Banwarilal Purohit would take a “good decision” on the Tamil Nadu Cabinet’s recommendation to release the seven life convicts in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. “We are not part of the NDA government at the Centre and [are] not in an alliance with the BJP now,” he told reporters at Therkku Erudhupatti village in Pudukottai district..