BJP has started to use IT, CBI, ED in T.N. like in other States, charges Stalin
The Hindu
The BJP government at the Centre, which has been using the Income Tax Department, the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate to muzzle the Opposition by taking revenge and intimidation in other States, has started doing it in Tamil Nadu, too, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has alleged
The BJP government at the Centre, which has been using the Income Tax Department, the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate to muzzle the Opposition by “taking revenge and intimidation in other States, has started doing it in Tamil Nadu, too”, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has alleged.
Addressing the media at Chennai airport, where he arrived on Wednesday night after an official tour of Singapore and Japan, Mr. Stalin said such a practice was prevalent in several States. “It has started here (Tamil Nadu). You all know it. I don’t have to explain any further,” he said.
He was responding to a query on the searches being carried out by the Income Tax Department on the premises of people acquainted with Electricity Minister V. Senthilbalaji.
Mr. Stalin said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann would meet him in Chennai on Thursday. Efforts to coordinate among all Opposition parties were already under way, and the “DMK will be completely involved” in such efforts, he said.
When asked if there was a specific date for a meeting of such parties, Mr. Stalin said the Congress president had requested a change in the date. He said he, too, had committed himself to taking part in an event to open the sluices of the Mettur dam, and hence, he had sought a change in the date. “It (meeting) will certainly happen, and the DMK will take part in it,” he said.
To a query on AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s criticism of the Chief Minister’s visit to Singapore and Japan, Mr. Stalin said the AIADMK leader was thinking that “others would also be like him”. He referred to Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu’s rejoinder in this regard.
When asked about Tamil Nadu’s stand on Karnataka’s proposal for a dam across the Cauvery at Mekedatu, Mr. Stalin referred to the statement issued by Minister for Water Resources Duraimurugan, and further said the Tamil Nadu government will strongly reiterate its position.
The Opposition Congress demanded that the government open the Gandhi Vatika Museum, depicting Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy and freedom struggle, built at a cost of ₹85 crore in Jaipur’s Central Park last year, during the Congress-led regime in Rajasthan. The museum has not been opened to the public, reportedly because of the administration’s engagements with the State Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
Almaya Munnettam (Lay People to the Fore), group in the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Church opposed to the synod-recommended Mass, rejected a circular issued by Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil and apostolic administrator Bosco Puthur on June 9 to implement the unified Mass in the archdiocese from July 3.
Pakistan coach Gary Kirsten stated that “not so great decision making” contributed to his side’s defeat to India in the Group-A T20 World Cup clash here on Sunday. The batting unit came apart in the chase, after being well placed at 72 for two. With 48 runs needed from eight overs, Pakistan found a way to panic and lose. “Maybe not so great decision making,” Kirsten said at the post-match press conference, when asked to explain the loss.