The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on Tuesday asked the Members of Parliament (MPs) in Rajya and Lok sabhas from Puducherry to respond to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to adopt villages in their constituencies under “Sansad Adarsh Grama Yojana” scheme.
M.A.S. Subramanian, organiser of the DMK’s Puducherry unit, said several thousands of villages lacked basic facilities. Considering the fact that the Prime Minister called the MPs to adopt and develop any village, several BJP MPs and also those belonging to its alliance partners and even DMK MPs had already adopted villages and been developing them. Even cricketer Sachin Tendulkar who was nominated as MP during Congress-led UPA regime, laid the foundation stone at a village in Andhra Pradesh for the purpose.
“The MPs from Puducherry have neither adopted any village so far nor undertaken any development work. In particular, All India NR Congress is an ally of the BJP and its MP R. Radhakrishnan has not taken such an initiative. Even though they have not taken any step for the development of the Union Territory as a whole, they should adopt at least a village and develop it,” said Dr. Subramanian.
Urging the AINRC MP Mr. Radhakrishnan to set up an office for meeting the public, the DMK leader pointed out that he was elected an MP six months ago and had no separate office so far. Hence, people who wanted to redress grievances and to fulfil their demands suffered a lot and they were not able to meet him.
