Coronavirus | Cannot keep extending lockdown, people must cooperate, says TN CM M.K. Stalin
The Hindu
The lockdown now was the only option available, the Chief Minister said in a recorded video message on Tuesday, and added that due to efforts taken, there is no situation now where patients have to struggle for a bed
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday said that the lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19 cannot be extended endlessly and people’s cooperation was needed to put a full stop to it soon. “We cannot keep extending the lockdown and there has to be a full stop to this soon. It is only in people’s hands. There can be a full stop to the spread of COVID-19 only if restrictions are followed completely,” Mr. Stalin said in a recorded video message released on Tuesday morning.The DMK government — when M. Karunanidhi was Chief Minister from 2006 to 2011 — enacting a law to provide 3% reservation to Arunthathiyars within the 18% quota of Scheduled Castes (SC) has had a lasting impact on the community and is a milestone in the party’s ambitious path towards social justice, Minister for Adi Dravidar Welfare M. Mathiventhan said on Friday (January 17, 2025).
The BJP had alleged in its complaint, filed in June 2023, that ‘false, baseless, and reckless’ allegations were made under the title ‘Corruption rate card’ in the advertisements issued by the accused persons on May 5, 2023, in all the mainstream newspapers in Karnataka during campaigning for the elections.