Chennai: Chennai Metropolitan Police have arrested three individuals for allegedly providing a bribe of Rs 350 crore to a TVK MLA to assist a no-confidence movement towards the Speaker within the Tamil Nadu Meeting.
The Tamil Nadu State Intelligence Bureau acted on data relating to an alleged conspiracy to overthrow the TVK authorities by securing the simultaneous resignation of 15 TVK MLAs.
TVK’s Uthangarai MLA N. Ilayaraja allegedly acquired a name from Thirunavukarasu, who claimed to be the top of a political analysis group named Indian Political and Democratic Technique (IPDS) and stated that he was contacting MLAs on the request of sure officers of main political events. He requested one other assembly. Ilayaraja refused.
Thirunavukarasu contacted him once more and stated {that a} decision towards the Speaker could be tabled in Parliament quickly, urged MLAs to cooperate in voting on the decision no matter their affiliation with the ruling occasion, and supplied them Rs 350 million as compensation.
The MLA declined the supply and instructed Mr Thirunavukarasu to not contact him once more. Thirunavukarasu then allegedly threatened that each the MLA and his household would face severe penalties if the dialog was made public.
Chennai Metropolitan Police stated in an announcement on Wednesday that Thirunavakarasu claimed to have acted on the directions of DMK MLA Senthil Balaji and his brother Ashok Kumar.
Police stated a case has been registered towards Thirunavakarasu and two others, Naresh and Thiyagarajan, at Triplicane police station. Police are investigating whether or not extra persons are concerned.
After the allegations grew to become public, TVK leaders attacked the DMK and claimed that TVK Minister P. Nirmal Kumar had been claiming for the previous 40 days that the DMK was attempting to poach the MLA.
“Just a few days in the past, considered one of our MLAs was threatened by a DMK MP. This (menace) was supported by Senthil Balaji and his youthful brother Ashok. With their assist, they offered considered one of our MLAs with round Rs 350 million towards the Speaker. That was their demand. When he refused, he acquired extreme threats from the DMK MP. He filed a grievance together with him.”Based mostly on this, the police arrested the three. All three are shut aides of Senthil Balaji,” stated Nirmal Kumar.
“Stalin has already misplaced his constituency and suffered a serious setback in Kolathur. The individuals of Tamil Nadu have clearly rejected Stalin. As an alternative of accepting the individuals’s verdict, Stalin is participating in horse-trading and becoming a member of forces with the AIADMK to topple the federal government,” he added.
“We aren’t attempting to get their MLAs,” DMK chief TKS Elangovan instructed PTI.
On this connection, DMK filed a case towards TVK for alleged horse buying and selling. The occasion’s organizing secretary RS Bharati has written to the governor in search of intervention from the Directorate Normal of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC). He alleged that horse-trading by Chief Minister Vijay and MDMK chief Vaiko had induced the resignation of two sitting MLAs, TM Rajendran from Kadayanallur and S Senthil Selvan from Sirkazhi, who have been elected as symbols of the DMK.
(Edited by Vinny Mishra)
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