Chennai (PTI): Pattali Makkal Katchi, a key ally of the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu, attacked the Karunanidhi government accusing it of failure on many fronts during its two years tenure.

"I can only say that the government had not passed the test," PMK founder S Ramadoss, who had been at loggerhead with the DMK government for some time, told reporters here.

He said the government, which completed two years in office on Tuesday, was "unable to stop sale of ganja", near educational institutions, which hampered the development of the students. "The police was ineffective".

Displaying packets of ganja, he claimed that it was purchased by his partymen near educational institutions in Chennai.

He also alleged that sale of lottery tickets, which was banned in 2003, was still going on. "In some places, it was done with the support of police and in most places, political patronage was being offered," he said.

This has ruined the rural economy, he claimed adding menfolk used to spend their money in drinking and purchasing lottery tickets.

Expressing concern over what he described as 'disparity' between Tamil and English medium students, he said English medium students had cornered a lions share of seats in the professional courses, though they constituted only 25 per cent of the total number of students who passed the Plus Two examinations.

This trend made the Tamil medium students as second class students and if allowed to continue, it would be dangerous, he added.