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With the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) reportedly penning to Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary and DGP in-charge alleging a ₹1,020 crore bribery scam successful the Municipal Administration and Water Supplies (MAWS) Department, K.N. Nehru, the Minister concerned, connected Monday claimed the bureau was connected a governmental deed job.
Leader of Opposition Edappadi K Palaniswami, however, demanded a probe into the allegation.
Mr. Nehru successful a connection said it was highly condemnable that the ED had joined the “opposition”, which could not tummy the achievements of the ‘Dravidian Model’ government, and was targeting him. “The ED has go a instrumentality successful the hands of the BJP and is indulging successful a smear run against me,” helium alleged.
Mr. Nehru said his ministry had laid roads covering 24,752 km and had supplied protected drinking h2o schemes for 1.22 crore people. “We are besides implementing schemes for implicit 77 lakh people. The AIADMK authorities had not made immoderate achievements, and States ruled by the BJP besides could not instrumentality specified schemes. That is wherefore the ED is not capable to instrumentality a affirmative presumption of my ministry’s achievements,” helium said.
Mr. Nehru said his ministry had unparalleled achievements and the ED, “instigated by the BJP”, was acceptable to judge baseless allegations against him. “It has been instigated for governmental reasons. We volition not fearfulness the lies and smear run of the BJP–AIADMK combine. I volition legally look the allegations against me,” helium said.
However, AIADMK person Mr Palaniswami claimed the “revelations” successful the ED connection person confirmed what the radical of Tamil Nadu person agelong suspected - that the Stalin-model authorities is “a commission–collection–corruption authorities moving astatine afloat speed.”
He alleged these revelations travel adjacent arsenic the DMK authorities failed to enactment connected the “₹888 crore ‘Cash for Jobs’ scam already forwarded by the ED”. In a statement, helium said, “Instead of dismissing the accused curate and ordering a just probe, the DMK authorities has been protecting the corrupt.” He challenged Chief Minister M K Stalin to beryllium that helium has thing to fell by ordering an “impartial” probe into each allegations flagged by the ED. “Will Mr. Stalin situation to bid an honorable probe? The radical of Tamil Nadu are waiting for his answer,” helium said.
