Vanathi Srinivasan attacked DMK Government!?
The most important festival celebrated by Tamils is pongal, the harvest festival. A festival of thanksgiving to Surya, the basis of agriculture and livestock. For the past several years, ration shops have been giving out Rs 1,000 in cash along with the essential rice, sugar and sugarcane required for pongal, so that everyone in tamil Nadu can celebrate pongal with their families.
The poor and middle-class people had high expectations that at least 2,000 rupees would be given with the pongal gift package this year. But to their great disappointment and shock, the tamil Nadu government has only announced that rice family card holders will be given one kilogram of rice, one kilogram of sugar and one whole sugarcane. It is highly condemnable that the pongal cash amount, which has been given for the past several years, has been stopped without any notification.
Chennai, Chengalpattu, Kanchipuram, Thiruvallur, Thoothukudi, tirunelveli and tenkasi districts did not provide flood relief to all the victims. In this case, the 1,000 rupees given for the pongal festival cannot be justified in any way. Therefore, 2,000 rupees should be given as pongal gift to all families in tamil Nadu immediately. Along with the pongal gift set, items like jaggery, cashews, raisins, castor ghee should be provided.” It says so.