DMK Steps Up Attack On TVK, Its MLA
DMK president M K Stalin referred to Vijay’s ‘stern warning to his party MLAs that he would not let go if they made a mistake,’ and wondered what he should have done if he really meant it.
Chennai: Accusing Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay of lacking the courage to take action against his party MLA from Kallakurichi C Arul Vignesh, who has been accused of sending obscene messages to a woman district collector, Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly, Udhayandihi Stalin said the meetings with MLAs and top police officers were all part of the ‘diversion politics’ played by him.
In the message on X, Udhayanidhi Stalin, in a bid to keep the pot boiling on the controversy over the alleged sexual harassment of the collector, also said an ‘online mafia’ was being used to plant stories in the media on Vijay spewing fire and brimstone against the erring MLAs, who would be admonished by the people if the party failed to do it.
DMK president M K Stalin referred to Vijay’s ‘stern warning to his party MLAs that he would not let go if they made a mistake,’ and wondered what he should have done if he really meant it. A case should have been taken against the Kallakurichi MLA but the ‘strict officer’ instead gave the MLAs Deepavali gifts, Stalin said.
The ‘stern warning’ was just a story planted in the newspapers as part of a damage control exercise, he said, adding that it was not cinema to deliver punch dialogues, he said.
Apart from the criticisms by the top leaders, DMK organisation secretary R S Bharathi filed a complaint with the Director General of Police demanding the filing of an FIR against the MLA and the shifting of the case to the CB-CID. The AIADMK has also been stepping up the pressure on the government to start a probe into the allegation against the MLA.
However, the MLA, Arul Vignesh, has denied the charges against him and the Collector of Kallakurichi, J E Padmaja, has also not filed a formal complaint on the allegations.
State Law Minister C T R Nirmal Kumar also took up the cudgels of the party when he told reporters at the Secretariat that it was not true that the MLA sent obscene messages to the Collector and that the MLA also did not go to the Collector’s house in an inebriated state.
He said that the government was also investigating the allegation that Deputy Speaker of the Assembly and Thuraiyur MLA M Ravi Shankar and that appropriate action would be taken after the enquiry.