Hitting out at both the AIADMK and DMK, People's Welfare Front, comprising the Left parties, MDMK and the VCK, today appealed to the electorate to support it in the Assembly elections next year to usher in a "true change" in the political history of Tamil Nadu.
Presided by Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi chief Thol Thirumavalavan, a meet of the District Secretaries of the constituents of the PWF was held here today. R Mutharasan and G Ramakrishnan, State Secretaries of the CPI and CPI(M) respectively and MDMK chief Vaiko participated.
"To usher in a true change in the political history of Tamil Nadu, the people of the State should extend massive support to the PWF in the ensuing Assembly elections," a resolution adopted at the meet appealed to the electorate.
Sewed up as an apolitical front, comprising CPI(M), CPI, MDMK, VCK, and the Manithaneya Makkal Katchi to champion the people's causes, it was later declared a political alliance subsequently. However, MMK walked out of the front claiming it was altered into a political front unilaterally.
PWF is an an alternative "to the (over) 40-year alternate rule of the AIADMK and DMK, which is responsible for the poverty and anguish of the people of Tamil Nadu," the resolution said.
"For the sake of harvest of votes, freebies were showered (by AIADMK and DMK), and liquor outlets were opened ruining the lives of the people."
Stating that the front was cobbled up with the goal of bringing about "a graft-free, and prosperous Tamil Nadu," the front took a swipe at the Congress for its "diabolical" economic policies and lambasted the BJP as a "communal" force.
PWF blamed the two prinicipal national parties for "a decline in farm and industrial sectors (through their policies)."
The meet also strongly criticised the Ramadoss-led Pattali Makkal Katchi as indulging in "caste politics." For such reasons, all these parties should be eschewed and people should come forward to support the PWF, it appealed.
