Ruckus broke out in the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Tuesday after DMK MLAs reportedly raised slogans and surrounded Speaker JCD Prabhakar’s podium, demanding that chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s remarks – made on Monday – based on Enforcement Directorate documents be expunged. The Speaker rejected the demand, following which the opposition MLAs continued their protest inside the House.
Vijay also slammed the DMK that DMK MLAs oppose the TVK government when it speaks about corruption. Referring to the report of the Sarkaria Commission which had said that 2.5 per cent corruption in tenders during the term led by the then DMK President M Karunanidhi, Vijay said, “Financial irregularities were done in an organised manner and claimed it is a ‘scientific corruption’ that has taken place in the DMK regime.
Displaying the ED documents during his fiery speech, Vijay said former DMK minister V Senthil Balaji and his brother Ashok Kumar were also involved in the corruption under the retail of liquors. “The great achievement of the DMK is the dishonest intention,” an earlier HT report quoted as saying Vijay, who cited the words described by the ED in its document. “But they (DMK) never say that we never indulged in corruption,” the chief minister said.
As the DMK MLAs persisted with sloganeering, law minister defended the chief minister’s statement, while Leader of the House Sengottaiyan demanded action against the protesting legislators, PTI news agency reported.
