The DMK had earlier referred to as Ok Annamalaai’s allegations “a joke”.
Chennai:
The Tamil Nadu authorities at present filed a defamation case towards the state BJP chief Ok Annamalai for his “DMK recordsdata“. Town Public Prosecutor has alleged that Mr Annamalai is defaming Chief Minister MK Stalin.
The BJP chief had lately alleged that MK Stalin was paid Rs 200 crore in 2011 to repair a Chennai Metro contract. Claiming that leaders of Mr Stalin’s social gathering, the DMK, personal belongings value Rs 1.34 lakh crore, earned by means of corrupt means, Mr Annamalai additionally alleged the Chief Minister’s relations have been administrators of a Dubai firm that is investing within the state.
DMK Spokesperson TKS Elangovan informed NDTV, “The perfect step is to punish Annamalai. What Rahul Gandhi mentioned was nothing, however he has been disqualified. Once they can try this, there may be ever motive to file a swimsuit towards Annamalai”.
The BJP has mentioned Mr Annamalai, who refused to apologise after DMK’s authorized discover earlier, will struggle the case in courtroom.
The BJP Tamil Nadu chief had on April 14 this yr made public a protracted record of belongings value Rs 1.34 lakh crore which he claimed are owned by key DMK leaders together with Chief Minister MK Stalin’s son and Sports activities Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, and different ministers together with Durai Murugan, EV Velu, Ok Ponmudy, V Senthil Balaji, and former Union Minister S Jagathrakshakan.
The DMK had then referred to as Mr Annamalaai’s allegations “a joke”.
“There may be not a single allegation of fee of bribe. All candidates he has listed have given their asset particulars of their affidavits. If there may be even one violation, any citizen can problem the election,” DMK MP RS Bharathi had mentioned.
On April 20, Ok Annamalai cited an audio clip on social media claiming that state Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, in dialog with somebody, revealed that Chief Minister Stalin’s son Udhayanidhi Stalin and son-in-law V Sabareesan gathered wealth Rs 30,000 crore in a yr.
Later, on April 25, the BJP chief launched an audio clip that allegedly options Palanivel Thiaga Rajan’s voice. The person within the clip will be heard accusing Chief Minister MK Stalin’s household of corruption.
Two days later, Palanivel Thiaga Rajan launched a press release refuting the claims and dismissing the audio clip as “malicious, fabricated” and launched simply to create division amongst DMK cadres and drive a wedge between him and the Chief Minister.
