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Tamil Nadu Elections: DMK, AIADMK promise freebies
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March 24, 2011
Original URL: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Tamil_Nadu_Elections:_DMK,_AIADMK_promise_freebies



Both the  (DMK) and the  (AIADMK) parties have announce "freebies" as
part of their election manifestos in the lead-up to the vote in the
south Indian state of . Freebies have been a success from the 2006 Tamil
Nadu elections when DMK lured voters by announcing free colour
televisions to households. That triumph led the major opposition AIADMK
to announce similar freebies in their manifesto published Thursday.

DMK has announced free laptops to college students, kitchen appliances
and modern networks to rural regions. The AIADMK, publishing their
manifesto later, expanded on each of the promises of the DMK, plus
offering 4g gold  for the poor, monetary help for rural households and
fishermen, free rice, and more.

AIADMK manifesto addresses larger issues, such as taking on the
near-monopoly of the cable industry television industry, starting new
Power generation plants to address power shortages in recent years.

== Sources == 
* http://www.ndtv.com/article/assembly%20polls/tamil-nadu-polls-jayalalithaa-trumps-dmk-offers-of-freebies-for-voters-93922?trendingnow
* http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article1567556.ece?homepage=true
* http://election.dinamalar.com/election_news_detail.php?id=1185



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