DMK's election manifesto shows national interest

The Tamilnadu Chief Minister and DMK president, M.Karunanidhi released his party's election manifesto for upcoming 2009 Lok Sabha election. This time there are no freebies announced for the people. Instead it says, it will make hutless villages and slumless cities in the State in the next five years. It wants the introduction of bullet trains between Chennai and Madurai, Chennai and Coimbatore. It will also stress for a dedicated freight corridor for Chennai-New Delhi. Efforts will be made to set up an Indian Institute of Science in the state and to raise the ceiling for income tax exemption from Rs.1.5 lakh to Rs.2.5 lakh.

Increasing minimum support price for paddy, sugar cane and other agricultural products; speeding up river-interlinking; sought for constitutional amendments to establish a National Backward Classes Commission are other items included in the manifesto.