Crime against women on the rise: Kanimozhi

August 07, 2016 12:00 am | Updated 09:34 am IST - TIRUNELVELI:

Raising her voice:Rajya Sabha MP, M.K. Kanimozhi addressing a function at Parappaadi in Tirunelveli on Saturday.

Raising her voice:Rajya Sabha MP, M.K. Kanimozhi addressing a function at Parappaadi in Tirunelveli on Saturday.

Crime against women is increasing alarmingly in Tamil Nadu as no stern action was being taken against the perpetrators, charged Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi.

In an informal chat with reporters after inaugurating an overhead tank, built at a cost of Rs. 15.76 lakh from her local area development fund at Parappaadi near Nanguneri in the district on Saturday, Ms. Kanimozhi said the Tamil Nadu Assembly, which should be a place for discussing the problems being faced by the people and the issues hampering the growth of the State, had become a place for just eulogising the Chief Minister.

Even though women in Tamil Nadu were facing threats everywhere due to the deteriorating law and order situation over the past five years, it could not be discussed in the State Assembly as encomiums were being heaped on the Chief Minister by the MLAs of the ruling party.

Unfortunately, no opportunity was being given for the MLAs of Opposition parties to raise people’s problems inside the Assembly since the Speaker was not allowing them to ask such questions, Ms. Kanimozhi said.

“The ruling AIADMK has stalled all development projects initiated by the previous DMK regime. Shunning political differences, the ruling party should continue those schemes in the best interest of the beneficiaries,” Ms. Kanimozhi said, adding that the Tamils had tortured themselves by re-electing the AIADMK to power.

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