K Annamalai
He announced that 25 more women’s self-help groups would be formed over the next six months.
their representation in legislative and decision-making bodies remained low, he said Although women constituted a majority of voters in the country. He said this reflected a slowdown in income-generating industrial activity and warned that the state’s long-term economic position could be affected without corrective measures. Annamalai claimed that Tamil Nadu had recorded negative growth in per-capita GST contributions compared with the previous year.
Earlier, Annamalai launched the Tharagai Women’s Self-Help Groups initiative under We the Leaders movement and distributed loan assistance to the tune of Rs 1.48 crore through govt and private banks to members of eight self-help groups.
Addressing a women’s development conference organised by We the Leaders at Paiyanapalli near Krishnagiri, Annamalai said organisations, including BJP and DMK , had a democratic right to fight for people’s issues. “Attempts to suppress dissent would strengthen opposition voices,” he said, adding that authorities should proceed in accordance with the law if CJP students had committed any wrongdoing, rather than adopting a vindictive approach. “Parties should participate actively in electoral roll revision exercises instead of raising objections after the electoral process has concluded,” he said.
Annamalai described Congress allegations of voter list irregularities after elections as a “political drama.