TTV Dinakaran alleged that CM Palaniswami and deputy CM would go to any extent to safeguard their positio
Hours after the late night Income-Tax department searches at late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa's residence, rebel AIADMK leader TTV Dinakaran on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley of carrying out a political vendetta to destroy his family using the Income-Tax department.
Dinakaran, nephew of jailed leader VK Sasikala, also alleged that chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and deputy CM O Panneerselvam would go to any extent to safeguard their position and that they were instigating the central government.
Dinakaran went on took a dig at Modi for his recent meeting with DMK chief K Karunanidhi in Chennai. "When Jayalalithaa was in the hospital, Modi never visited her. Now, he visits Karunanidhi," he said, hours after the I-T officials completed the four-hour-long search at Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden residence "Veda Nilayam".
Sasikala, a trusted aide of Jayalalithaa, had lived at the late CM's residence with her sister-in-law Ilavarassi and three children for over two decades. On Friday night, I-T officials recovered a laptop, a desktop and four pen drives from two rooms used by Sasikala, said a senior official. "We received input that some important electronic storage devices are going to be removed from the two rooms," an I-T official said. According to him, it was a "limited mission".
Meanwhile, Palaniswami blamed Sasikala's family for the search and said that the state government has nothing to do with it. "I came to know through news reports that the search at Poes Garden was a continuation of the raids conducted in the premises connected to Sasikala and her relatives. No search was done in Amma's (Jayalalithaa) room," he said.
Jayalalithaa's niece J Deepa, who made vain attempts to enter the Poes Garden residence on Friday night, also slammed Sasikala's family. "This property was earned by Amma with her blood and sweat (as an actor in the) film industry. This raid is being carried out to defame Amma and was done with the cooperation of the family of Sasikala," she said.
ALLEGATIONS ABOUND
- Dinakaran alleged that CM Palaniswami and deputy CM would go to any extent to safeguard their position.
- Dinakaran took a dig at Modi for his recent meeting with K Karunanidhi in Chennai.
- ‘This raid is being carried out to defame Amma,’ said Deepa from outside Poes Garden
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