CHENNAI: PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss labelled the DMK’s 2026 assembly election manifesto a “comedy script” rather than a road map for development.In a statement on Monday, he said the document is a “Sadhuranga Vettai” (con-game) intended to deceive the public. The core of Anbumani’s attack centres on the repetition of old promises. He alleged that out of the 517 promises in the new manifesto, at least 63 are identical to those made in 2021, simply re-branded with new terminology.Anbumani pointed out that in 2021, the DMK promised to fill 3.5 lakh govt vacancies and create two lakh new posts. “Having failed to fill even 50,000 posts while over six lakh positions remain vacant today, DMK now claim they will fill 1.5 lakh posts. They have lost the moral right to make such a promise,” he said.He reminded voters of the unfulfilled 2021 promise to reserve 75% of posts for Tamil people in the private sector and the failed target of creating 50 million jobs in the private sector. He mocked the DMK’s previous claim that the first signature of their govt would be to abolish Neet. “After 50 students have tragically lost their lives to suicide because the govt failed to act, they have now simply removed the word ‘Neet’ and replaced it with ‘National entrance exams for higher education’. This shows a total lack of guilt,” Anbumani said.He dismissed the promise to make Tamil an official language of the Union govt as a “shameless joke,” noting that the DMK failed to achieve this despite being part of the Union govt for 18 years. He concluded that the DMK’s manifesto would not save them from the impending wrath of the voters. He claimed that the public is well aware that 87% of the 2021 promises remain unfulfilled.“The DMK’s manifesto is like a ‘blunt nail’ that is of no use to anyone. The people of Tamil Nadu have already resolved to defeat the DMK in the upcoming polls,” he declared.
