Tiruvallur (Tamil Nadu), April 7 DMK deputy general secretary Kanimozhi said that the opposition AIADMK will make many promises to attract voters, but will not fulfill them.
She said that the party had promised free mobile phones in the past, but had not provided them to anyone.
"The AIADMK promised mobile phones (in 2016), but none have received them. However, our leader M Karunanidhi promised television sets to the people and implemented the scheme upon coming to power," she said, addressing a poll campaign here in support of party candidate V G Rajendran for the April 23 election.
Unlike the AIADMK, the DMK has kept its promises made in the run-up to the 2021 Assembly election, and therefore, was now facing the people with confidence, she claimed.
DMK president and Chief Minister M K Stalin had unveiled several welfare initiatives in the party's election manifesto for the benefit of the people, including providing electric pump sets without meters to 20 lakh farmers under the free power scheme to support the irrigation needs of the farmers.
The DMK MP claimed that during the previous AIADMK regime, women felt unsafe and were unable to report crimes against them at the police stations.
She criticized the Centre for "ignoring" Tamil Nadu, especially in denying funds due for the state and in not providing budgetary allocation for projects.