Chennai: Tamilnadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday said he does not hanker for the high post of CM but considered himself as ‘in-charge’ having overall responsibility to ‘execute the task’ people assign to him. His role was only to serve the people as what remained everlasting is one’s good deeds.
The Chief Minister who launched ‘Vetrinadai Podum Tamizhagam’ (Tamilnadu leading the way), his poll campaign in Rasipuram in Namakkal, said the people are the real chief ministers.
“Earlier I was introduced as the chief minister. But I see everyone of you as chief minister. The people are the real chief ministers because you gave me this post which I accepted as in-charge to serve you, to execute the task you assign to me.”
“Like others, I don’t hanker for the chief minister’s chair because as one hailing from a village I wish to work hard.”
He said he came up in life through sheer hard work. “I came up by working hard and thank our leaders (Late chief ministers) M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa for this. What remains everlasting is our achievements.”
“This is what both our leaders have left behind through their good deeds,” Palaniswami, whom the ruling AIADMK has announced as the Chief Ministerial candidate for the 2021 polls, said.