MDMK fine print

• The manifesto welcomes Jayalalithaa government’s legislation to take over the cable television network which would greatly affect Sumangali Cable Vision, owned by the Maran family, which enjoys virtual monopoly in the state. The party also called for the setting up of a State Cable Corporation to check monopoly and regulate the cable network in the state.

• Says Union ministers ‘‘ignoring’’ the state government and going against the country’s “democratic and federal policy”.

• Demands a separate country in Sri Lanka for Tamils, the only ‘‘possible and lasting’’ solution to the ethnic conflict

• For Nationalisation of inter-state rivers and linking of all rivers in the southern peninsula