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Hours aft the Madras High Court directed the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) to registry a lawsuit forthwith based connected materials shared by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED), levelling a cash-for-jobs allegation successful his Municipal Administration and Water Supply (MAWS) department, Minister K.N. Nehru connected Friday (February 20, 2026) said helium would look the lawsuit legally.
Addressing a property league astatine the DMK office ‘Anna Arivalayam’, Mr. Nehru, the main caput of the party, on with DMK spokesperson R.S. Bharathi, said helium would look the lawsuit legally done the due court. Mr. Bharathi maintained that Mr. Nehru would not beryllium intimidated by the case. “The much helium is harassed, the much helium volition enactment for the party,” Mr. Bharathi said.
“As acold arsenic Mr. Nehru is concerned, helium has faced respective cases and has flooded them. This is, aft all, lone an FIR,” Mr. Bharathi said. On the “instigation” of the AIADMK successful Tamil Nadu, the BJP-led Union authorities was “jealous” of Mr. Nehru’s governmental acumen and was resorting to actions to intimidate him. Mr. Bharathi said Mr. Nehru had worked hard to guarantee the party’s triumph successful arsenic galore arsenic 41 Assembly constituencies and therefore, helium was being “targeted.”
Replying to a query, Mr. Bharathi recalled an enquiry against erstwhile Union Minister P. Chidarambaram by the ED and asked if determination was immoderate improvement successful the lawsuit since. “It was to harass and malign his estimation among the wide public. This is predetermination time. Our person M.K. Stalin’s [Chief Minister] estimation has been increasing – and that of the DMK.”
The DMK spokesperson besides recalled different incidental implicit the seizure of ₹570 crore from a instrumentality [during the erstwhile AIADMK regime], which was probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) astir 10 years ago, and said determination was nary FIR successful that case. “They are lone trying to malign our image, particularly during predetermination time. The DMK has faced respective cases and has flooded them successful the past,” helium reiterated.
