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People should pave way for a secular government at the Centre, where the DMK chief Karunanidhi would be able to name the next Prime Minister, party leader MK Stalin said here on Tuesday.

Addressing from his campaign van in Mandy Street, he described the IUML candidate Abdul Rahman as a good Parliamentarian. Stalin said that Rahman had been voicing the concerns of people of Vellore and Tamil Nadu as a whole, in Parliament. “So, give him one more chance to continue his mission in Parliament by ensuring a victory for him,” he said.

Terming the DMK as people-centric, Stalin said that Karunanidhi was able to provide welfare schemes aimed at the overall development of the State.

“But today, we have the Jayalalithaa government which has discarded all the good schemes initiated by the DMK government,” he said adding,” The AIADMK government need not come up with new schemes but could continue with the good schemes initiated by the previous DMK government.”

Enlisting the various schemes introduced by the DMK regime for Vellore, Stalin said that most of them still remained incomplete.

In order to provide a concrete solution to the water scarcity problem in Vellore, the DMK had initiated the Hogennekkal integrated water scheme but it was yet to see the light of day, he added.

While the ruling government should be providing water free of cost, it was seling water for `10 a litre. There was nothing wrong in private enterprises marketing water but a government doing the same was not acceptable, he said.

Expressing concern over the deteriorating law and order situation in the State, Stalin said the media reports murders, rapes, and robberies in the State. “There is no security for women even in day time,” he added.

“You can put an end to this by voting out the Jayalalithaa government and bringing back the DMK- combine, to bring stability at the Centre,” Stalin added further.