CM Vijay To Hold Meeting With TVK MLAs Amid Mounting Allegations
The high-level meeting scheduled to take place at the TVK party headquarters in Panaiyur, Chennai on November 11, will be chaired by CM Vijay
Chennai: Chief Minister and TVK founder C Joseph Vijay summoned his party legislators to Chennai for an emergency consultative meeting, party sources said on Tuesday.
The high-level meeting scheduled to take place at the TVK party headquarters in Panaiyur, here on November 11, will be chaired by CM Vijay.
Party general secretary and Minister N Anand and other senior leaders would participate in the meeting that has been called amidst growing political pressure and scrutiny over the conduct of certain legislators, which the leadership fears could undermine the public standing of the six-month-old government.
Political Storm Against TVK MLAs
The developments come amidst multiple allegations of misconduct against them.
On Monday, a person who claims to be a TVK voter had alleged that he was attacked by the Tamil Nadu Assembly Deputy Speaker and TVLK MLA M Ravisankar over requesting to fix civic issues in his ward.
The person who was beaten had shared a video of the legislator attacking him and chasing him away on Deepavali night for making a request, and had made a video appeal from a government hospital while he was getting treatment for the injuries he sustained. But the man had retracted his statement next morning, saying there are no problems between him and the Deputy Speaker. Opposition leaders have since alleged that the later statement was made by coercing the attack victim.
Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu’s opposition parties on Tuesday have alleged that Kallakurichi Assembly constituency MLA Arul Vignesh had sent obscene text messages to female IAS officer Kallakkuruchi district collector. DMP MP K Kanimozhi had alleged that the MLA, in a drunken state, had also made a visit to the collectors office without the consent of the woman IAS officer.
The Kallakkuruchi MLA has refuted the allegations against them and has siad "dirty politics" is eing played against him.
These events have cooked up a political storm in Tamil Nadu, with the opposition parties going all guns blazing against the newly formed TVK government.
