DMK submits 2nd petition to guv against CM, mins

DMK submits 2nd petition to guv against CM, mins

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Chennai:20.02.2021

The DMK, on Friday, submitted yet another petition to governor Banwarilal Purohit, levelling corruption charges against chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and several of his cabinet colleagues. This is the second petition the party is submitting to the governor against the CM and ministers in the last two months.

DMK general secretary S Duraimurugan, after submitting the 38-page petition to Purohit, told mediapersons that charges were levelled against ministers K C Karuppannan, K T Rajenthra Bhalaji, P Thangamani and S P Velumani and Anthiyur MLA K R Rajakrishnan. “We will not have to give one more petition to the governor as this government will not be there for long,” said Duraimurugan, expressing unhappiness over the governor not acting on the earlier petition submitted by the party. The first petition was submitted to governor by DMK president M K Stalin on December 27. Duraimurugan said when the DMK delegation comprising himself and senior leaders T R Baalu and R S Bharathi asked Purohit about the action taken on the first petition, the governor said he had forwarded it to the Union ministry of home affairs. However, governor added that he would take suitable action as per the powers vested with him, said Duraimurugan.

The DMK, in the first petition, had levelled charges against the CM, his deputy O Panneerselvam and ministers S P Velumani, P Thangamani, D Jayakumar, R B Udhayakumar and C Vijayabaskar.

BJP: Stalin cheating people of Tamil Nadu

Thanjavur:

BJP’s Tamil Nadu in-charge C T Ravi on Friday accused DMK president M K Stalin of ‘cheating’ the people in the name of Dravidianism. The BJP leader sought to project their party as a “friend of people of Tamil Nadu” and the Congress and DMK as enemies. In this regard, he referred to the ban on jallikattu by the Congress government, backed by the DMK, and its revocation by the BJP-led Union government. TNN