Vanniyar Federation C N Ramamurthy support to back AIADMK
The Vanniyar Federation president C N Ramamurthy said here on Wednesday that they would support the AIADMK in forthcoming Assembly elections, even if the latter did not give them any seat to contest.
He said the chief minister had signed a pact with him in 1989 and assured to fulfil the demand for separate quota for Vanniyars, after 18 people lost their lives in an agitation for the same. “I was Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) general secretary at that time. Karunanidhi offered 20 per cent quota for 109 castes, including Vanniyars and considered them as Most Backward Classes. Since that was a big injustice, I filed a suit in the High Court seeking 15 per cent exclusive quota for Vanniyars within the MBC. Till date, the government has not responded in the High Court,” he rued.
“When 69 per cent quota for Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes was under threat, former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa passed a resolution in the Assembly and also forced the Centre to amend the Constitution and include the quota under the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution. Karunanidhi has not taken similar steps to protect the quota,” he alleged.
“Both Karunanidhi and PMK president Ramadoss have not helped Vanniyars. So we have decided to support Jayalalithaa,” he said.
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