The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) general secretary and Chief Minister Jayalalitha has on Thursday told that family rule is anathema to democracy and asserted that her party stood for democratic ideals.
In a motivational letter to her party workers, she has said that the poll was to ensure continuity of the revolutionary journey of AIADMK, which shares power with poor, ordinary people and working classes and this election is to save Tamil Nadu from the evil force hankering to have power only for the family.
She has said in an apparent reference to DMK without explicitly naming it that family rule is out and out against democracy by having the reins of governance, power and political influence within one family will shatter the idea of equal opportunity to all, which is the basic concept of democracy.
She has added that to ensure continuation of such schemes and for the growth of democratic qualities of equal opportunities, we should bag victory after victory and she has urged the people to work with full energy by assuming that “your dear sister is contesting in all the 234 constituencies of the state”.
