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CPI(M) State caput P. Shanmugam connected Thursday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah were utilizing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arsenic a instrumentality for governmental vendetta against leaders opposed to them, and termed it a usurpation of antiauthoritarian norms.
Addressing reporters successful Erode connected Thursday, helium referred to the ED raid astatine the residence of erstwhile Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and said protests against specified “illegal actions” would continue.
He described the raids arsenic politically motivated actions against Opposition parties. Referring to the State government’s harvest indebtedness waiver announcement, Mr. Shanmugam said TVK president C. Joseph Vijay should fulfil his predetermination committedness regarding the workplace indebtedness waiver. Stating that turning the Secretariat into a governmental centre was not appropriate, helium said the TVK had clarified that nary specified enactment had taken place.
Describing the resignation and induction of AIADMK MLAs into the TVK arsenic “unhealthy politics”, helium said it amounted to betraying the mandate of the radical who had elected them.
On enactment for the by-election, helium said the party’s State committee would instrumentality a decision.
Referring to the projected Mekedatu project, Mr. Shanmugam said the Karnataka authorities could not laic “even a brick” without Tamil Nadu’s consent and warned that farmers from the State would motorboat protests if immoderate effort was made to proceed with the project.
