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The Salem City constabulary registered a lawsuit against Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam’s (TVK) Salem cardinal territory caput Tamilan Parthiban connected Monday (March 23, 2026).
On Saturday (March 21), arsenic portion of Eid celebrations, a relation was organised by the TVK astatine a matrimony hallway successful Shanmuga Nagar, Annathanapatti. At the event, the territory caput distributed acquisition items (utensils) to the public. Videos of the lawsuit were aboriginal uploaded connected societal media.
Following this, Salem South Assembly constituency Assistant Returning Officer Tamilvendhan lodged a ailment with the Annathanapatti constabulary connected Sunday (March 22), stating that the TVK territory caput had allegedly distributed acquisition items to voters astatine the relation portion the Model Code of Conduct was successful force.
Based connected the complaint, the Annathanapatti constabulary registered a lawsuit against Parthiban nether Sections 173 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and 123 (1) (A) of the Representation of the People Act. Further probe is nether way.
#TVK cadres distributed bottles of drinks with enactment stickers during #Eid prayers adjacent a mosque successful Suramangalam, #Salem. Election flying squad officials aboriginal seized the bottles, citing #ModelCodeofConduct usurpation successful poll-bound #TamilNadu.
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On Sunday, the Sooramangalam constabulary registered cases nether Sections 173 and 174 of the BNS against TVK 19th Ward caput Rajkumar, zonal caput Sankara Narayanan, and Jiyathuveen for distributing h2o bottles bearing the TVK sanction and awesome to radical who had gathered astatine mosques successful Azad Nagar and Sooramangalam for Ramadan celebrations connected Saturday.
