New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday slammed the Tamil Nadu authorities over the arrest of its Tamil Nadu chief S G Suryah, alleging that Chief Minister M Ok Stalin has taken “revenge” for the arrest of his Electricity Minister V Senthil Balaji by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case. Suryah was arrested by the police in Chennai late on Friday beneath sections of the IPC and the IT Act. Police sources mentioned the motion was primarily based on a CPI(M) criticism towards a social media submit by the BJP state secretary.
Reacting to the arrest, BJP nationwide spokesperson Tom Vaddakan instructed a press convention on the social gathering headquarters right here, “I call it a vendetta arrest. The chief minister has said in a statement after the arrest of Balaji that he will take revenge.”
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday arrested Balaji beneath the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in an alleged cash-for-jobs rip-off within the state transport division when he was the transport minister within the AIADMK authorities throughout 2011-15. He later joined the Stalin-led DMK.
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Vaddakan mentioned the motion has been taken towards Suryah for his tweet concerning the dying of a sanitation employee in Tamil Nadu, whereas Balaji was arrested “for his involvement in cash-for-jobs scam”.
On the minister’s arrest, the BJP spokesperson mentioned, “This is not the case that we brought about. It was a case in which Chief Minister Stalin himself wanted Balaji to be arrested for corruption when he was in the opposition.”
With Suryah’s arrest, a message has been despatched out that “if you raise any issue, then Stalin will strike,” he charged. Vaddakan alleged that the Tamil Nadu Police has arrested Suryah for his tweet in a retaliatory motion as a result of Stalin is “worried that Senthil will expose him”.
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“Today, when Senthil is a minister in the DMK government, he has connection with the chief minister and a lot of expose is going to happen,” the BJP spokesperson claimed.
“That is why he (Stalin) rushed to the hospital to meet the minister (Senthil)…. He is worried that Senthil will expose him,” he alleged.
“And worried he should be because his acts of omissions and commissions that he has committed jointly will take him to the place where he deserves to be,” the BJP spokesperson mentioned, including, “this is a message to the Tamil Nadu chief minister that he should concentrate on governance”.
