‘You Can’t Scare…’: Kejriwal Slams Centre After ED Raids Tamil Nadu Minister, His MP Son

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‘You Can’t Scare…’: Kejriwal Slams Centre After ED Raids Tamil Nadu Minister, His MP Son


New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday condemned the raid at a number of premises of Tamil Nadu Education Minister Okay Ponmudy and his MP son Gautham Sigamani Pon by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and alleged that the Centre is attempting to ‘break events and scare everybody’. His response got here after the ED on Monday performed raids at a number of premises of Ponmudy and his son in a cash laundering case linked to alleged unlawful mining.

“We strongly condemn ED raids on TN Education minister now. They are trying to break parties and scare everyone with ED,” Arvind Kejriwal stated in a tweet.

“But for ED, NDA would be left with no partners and many leaders in BJP would have also left. You cannot scare or control a great nation like India through ED,” he added.

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Ponmudy, notably, is the second Minister within the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s cupboard to face ED raids following Senthil Balaji, who was arrested final month in a cash-for-jobs case following searches.

The 72-year-old Ponmudy is an MLA from the Tirukkoyilur Assembly constituency within the Villupuram district whereas his 49-year-old son Sigamani is a Member of Parliament representing the Kallakurichi seat.

ED raids Okay Ponmudy in unlawful mining case

The cash laundering case is linked to alleged irregularities when Ponmudy was the state mining minister (between 2007 and 2011) and there have been allegations of violation of quarry licence circumstances resulting in lack of about Rs 28 crore to the exchequer.

The TN police had filed a criticism to probe these fees of alleged corruption towards the minister and people linked to him and the Madras High Court in June refused to remain the trial on this case after Sigamani approached it with a petition for aid. The minister is accused of acquiring mining/ quarry licences for his son and different relations and the licencees are alleged to have quarried crimson sand past the permissible restrict.

The High Court stated that there have been grounds to presume that the petitioner has dedicated the offence and therefore the trial can’t be stopped.

MK Stalin mocks ED 

CM MK Stalin mocked the central company as having joined the ‘election marketing campaign.’

“As regards Tamil Nadu, Governor RN Ravi is already conducting a poll campaign for us and now, the ED has joined (the poll scene) and I feel the election work for us will be easy,” the DMK president stated.

“The DMK is not worried a wee bit,” he stated on the ED searches. 

“Opposition parties joining forces has irritated the BJP and the ED searches reflected it. That agency’s raids were a ‘tactic to divert attention’ from the ‘objective’ of the Opposition meetings, held first in Patna last month, to be held now in Bengaluru and later in other states,” Stalin alleged.

People, who had been witnessing all of it would give a becoming reply within the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha polls, he added.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge condemns ED raids

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge additionally condemned the ED raids and stated, “This has become Modi Govt’s predictable script in order to intimidate and divide the opposition.”

Taking to his official Twitter account, he additional stated surprisingly the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has ‘all of a sudden’ woken as much as the necessity of placing collectively an alliance of ideologically opposed events.

“All like-minded parties are united against the vendetta politics of the Modi Govt and shall not be bogged down by these cowardly tactics to trample upon democracy,” Kharge stated.





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