FM warns AIADMK on 'Chanakya calculations', points to Vanathi's grin

FINANCE Minister Thangam Thennarasu, in his reply to the debate on this year's budget in the Assembly on Friday, took a jibe at the AIADMK by making a "kind request" to be wary of the "calculations" being made by some people from faraway places (a veiled reference to BJP) with the deviousness of Chanakya to sabotage the principal opposition party.

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Highlighting the fact that the DMK and the AIADMK have been the prominent players in the state's political landscape for long, Thennarasu, at the outset, said he was not giving the advice with negative intentions but with the affection he has for them.

Referring to former minister and AIADMK MLA P Thangamani regarding the potentially minimal estimate of ₹10,000 per laptop being made by the ruling DMK for the new scheme for free distribution of laptops to college students, Thennarasu contended the AIADMK MLA had made incorrect "calculations" in his head based on certain assumptions.

He asked Thangamani to be careful about the "calculations" being made for the AIADMK by those in faraway places to dilute the future of the cadre and supporters of the party, which has been blamed for trying to control the AIADMK.