AIADMK (Amma) points finger at Modi in defence
VK Sasikala-led AIADMK’s Amma faction on Tuesday raked up the ‘Sahara papers’ issue to defend itself against the allegation of distributing money to voters in the cancelled RK Nagar bypoll.
VK Sasikala-led AIADMK’s Amma faction on Tuesday raked up the ‘Sahara papers’ issue to defend itself against the allegation of distributing money to voters in the cancelled RK Nagar bypoll.
A day after hitting out at the BJP government at the Centre for the first time following the Election Commission’s decision to cancel the by-poll and an Income-Tax raid on its Health Minister Dr C Vijayabaskar, AIADMK’s mouthpiece Dr Namadhu MGR said that a document seized during an I-T raid at Sahara Group companies allegedly showed payment of Rs 55 crore to the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
“When attempts were made to file a case based on the papers, the Supreme Court refused to accept loose sheets as evidence,” it said, pointing out that the I-T Department supposedly seized a paper showing the distribution of Rs 89 crore to voters and leaked it to the media. “To stop the RK Nagar by-poll, they conspired to create a fake document. That the Election Commission accepted it is worse,” it said.