Rs 5,000 crore a year for TASMAC!

Robbery? Inflation?

Snatching the money given during elections through bottles!

Is the Dravidian model spreading like wildfire?

During the period of the ban, one by one, they disappeared from the police and got drunk one day out of fear of the community and the family. They were mostly in their 40s and 50s. It was difficult to find counterfeit liquor, such as s. The drunkards and drunkards went to jail if they got caught in it. The number of drinkers was also very low. So the number of health victims was negligible. For various reasons, after the ‘Dravidian model’ came to power in Tamil Nadu for the second time, toddy shops and liquor shops were opened in 1971. For almost half a century, a generation that did not even know the smell of alcohol became addicted to alcohol. It started in a regime; Lasted under successive regimes: continues to this day.

The overall political, economic and social situation in Tamil Nadu has changed drastically after domestic liquor production such as s and alcohol was banned and TASMAC became involved in the sale of liquor by the Tamil Nadu government under the name ‘IMFL – India Made Foreign Liquor’. Millions of families were pushed into poverty. Countless young people fell ill. Despite the destruction of the mills, foundries and small businesses which provided employment to innumerable people, only the distilleries, which were started at the behest of the political forces that tasted the political power of Tamil Nadu, flourished in the district; Became the wealth of some parties. Do people have water to drink? Nope! Only distilleries are provided with water and electricity without shortage.

They were drinkers from the day the TASMAC sales outlets were opened, and the conditions under which they would not drink changed from school children to all ages; Even women are no exception. There was a time when working out for a week changed the level of drunkenness during the holidays in order to get rid of physical fatigue, and the worst situation was when it came to drinking to go to work. There is a period of overtime, asking for over 8 hours and earning and working and earning. But now it has become a big deal if a worker works four days a week. It’s the biggest thing if there are tens of people who take the weekly salary on Saturday and take it home.

Starting Saturday evening and getting drunk all night on Sunday and waking up at 11am on Monday and drinking a half or full bottle again and going to work on Tuesday after repeated calls from the bosses that the employer must be the one who gave it or go to work only on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. Today’s situation is whether Saturday comes to work or not.

Most of the artisans, non-traditional workers, and those who rely solely on manual labour start their work in the morning by drinking wine as if they were drinking tea. This is the situation in Tamil Nadu today. School children, college students and millions of workers are addicted to alcohol and their health is greatly affected. At a young age the stomach burns and the liver rots and progresses towards its final days. Husband-wife relationship deteriorates. There are quarrels in the family. Problems arise in the general community. Murder, robbery and rape are the major causes for this to happen and increase.

The Tamil cultures nurtured for thousands of years by the Dravidian model rulers poured into the TASMAC shops are fragmented; Is degraded. Not only culture but also health and a large share of the income of most working people are exploited by liquor stores run by the state government. Parents and wives are unable to afford good clothes because they lose most of their income in TASMAC stores; It is also not possible to give good education to children. 90% of the family’s income is absorbed by the Tamil Nadu government’s TASMAC stores. So the family income also decreases; The average Tamil Nadu income is also declining. Why is the per capita income of Tamil Nadu not as high as that of Gujarat? Mr. Palanivel Thiagarajan says, ‘This is a Dravidian model’. How can personal income rise in Tamil Nadu after the government has embezzled 75 percent of a worker’s earnings?

This is why they pay Rs. 5000, 3000 and 2000 per vote at election time. What’s in it? Isn’t it poison? Tamil Nadu mothers and brothers fall prey to it without knowing it. Thus, they are not even able to understand that the money given to them will not stay with them even for a maximum of 24 hours.

In the recent urban local elections, all voters have been given between Rs.1000 and Rs.5000. At that time, the rulers were reluctant to give up even ten days’ money on ballots. They have announced an increase in liquor prices, starting at Rs 10 for bottles of liquor and up to Rs 500 for other liquor, earning an additional Rs 5,000 crore a year. Whose money is this Rs 5000 crore going to be? All can be the sweat and blood of the people of Tamil Nadu. Wow, what a dawn! What really is the Dravidian model?

We have heard of a time when poison was injected and looted; We have heard of looting by giving sedative biscuits on train journeys; We have heard that poison is mixed in soft drinks. Their aim is to absorb the sweat and blood of the Tamil people by completely seducing the already thin and emaciated drinkers through the liquor shops now run by the government.

We have been campaigning for the implementation of alcohol ban among the people of Tamil Nadu for the last 30 years. We travelled from village to village for many months and said, ‘We will not pour alcohol; We will not drink; There is an oath of allegiance to the people that ‘we will not sell’. We have been urging the implementation of abstinence at every conference. There has been a period when employees who could work at TASMAC refused to form an association for liquor sellers who were against the party’s policy, even when urged to form a union. We have completely rejected the party executives’ insistence on taking away liquor bars while in the coalition. So abstinence is not our political slogan. It is with the intention that the soul of this Tamil-Indian nation should not be destroyed.

However, we cannot tolerate the fact that today’s rulers are branding the Dravidian model in front of their eyes and exploiting the labor of the Tamil people like card insects for an additional Rs 5,000 crore, not Rs 100 crore, not Rs 100 crore a year. They are ready to explain that we are raising prices to get rid of alcohol. Those who have come to power for the last 25 years without hesitation and those who have retained it will not hesitate to justify it again. However, Sasiperumal, a resident of Salem district, committed suicide by insisting on a full ban. During that period, people rallied across Tamil Nadu against the ban. On that day, Mar said that if he came to power, he would implement a ban on alcohol. In the 10 months since they came to power, they have raised the price of alcohol to the point where they expect to bring in a complete ban on alcohol, in stark contrast to the fact that they are absorbing Rs 5,000 crore a year from the common man.

They may forget the promises they made before they came to power, and we must not forget. They may think to cover up what they said that day, not to cover it up, not to apologise.

Brothers and sisters of Tamil Nadu!

Get up! Join us to implement a complete ban on alcohol!

Dr. K. Krishnasamy, MD

Founder & President

Puthiya Tamilagam Party 

07.03.2022