Daydreaming, EPS Dismisses CM Stalin’s 2026 Assembly Election Target

Leader of Opposition and AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi Okay. Palaniswami (EPS) on Sunday brushed aside Chief Minister M.Okay. Stalin’s declare that the DMK-led coalition would win over 200 seats within the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, calling it a “daydream”. 

Speaking on the wedding ceremony of Arakkonam MLA S. Ravi’s son, Palaniswami mentioned, “Stalin is daydreaming when he says his alliance will secure more than 200 Assembly seats in the next polls. It is, in fact, the AIADMK-led front that will form the next government in Tamil Nadu after 2026.”

He additionally asserted that extra political events would quickly sign up for the AIADMK alliance, additional strengthening its place.

Highlighting achievements of the AIADMK right through its earlier tenure from 2016 to 2021, Palaniswami took credit score for the advent of six new districts in Tamil Nadu, together with Ranipet and Tirupattur, that have been carved out of Vellore.

He mentioned the formation of those new administrative gadgets enabled a greater center of attention on underdeveloped areas.

The former Chief Minister additionally indexed a number of tutorial projects introduced right through the AIADMK regime, together with the status quo of 11 new scientific faculties, six legislation faculties, and further engineering and agricultural faculties.

“On the opposite, the DMK govt is simply relaunching our schemes below new names through pasting their stickers on them,” he alleged.

Palaniswami puzzled the DMK’s 2021 ballot promise to construct test dams value Rs 2,000 crore throughout Tamil Nadu. “How many check dams has the DMK government built so far? Every monsoon, excess rainwater simply drains into the sea due to poor planning,” he mentioned.

He additional criticised the DMK for discontinuing pro-poor schemes offered through the AIADMK, akin to Amma Clinics and the Kudimaramathu initiative, which allowed farmers to desilt native waterbodies. “This not only deepened water storage areas but also provided nutrient-rich silt for farmlands,” he mentioned.

Palaniswami additionally cited the AIADMK’s advent of the 7.5 in line with cent horizontal reservation for presidency college scholars in scientific admissions as a landmark initiative. “Thanks to this, 3,460 government school students have been able to pursue medicine since the 2020-21 academic year,” he mentioned.

The match used to be attended through former Minister and Tirupattur district in-charge Okay.C. Veeramani, along side a number of AIADMK functionaries and birthday party cadre.