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Stalin defends participation in NITI Aayog meet
CHENNAI [Maha Media]: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin has said his participation in the NITI Aayog meeting was considering deliberations over India's growth plans.
He rejected accusations from opposition parties in this regard.
Writing to party cadres on Sunday, Stalin said, as soon as the news of his participation in the NITI Aayog meeting on May 24 spread, political rivals were rattled and they began showing malice as usual.
Such opponents derived happiness by posing questions on his non-participation in the NITI meeting held in previous years, he said.
Also, they levelled allegations that he was meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in order to escape from the Enforcement Directorate's "action" following the central agency's searches in the state-run liquor corporation (TASMAC, Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation) premises in connection with an alleged scam, he said.
No other party has been targeted by central agencies, including the CBI and ED, like the DMK. Still, the party is only legally fighting against it in courts and has not surrendered like the main opposition party, AIADMK.
Stalin also wondered why his party, the DMK, should make compromises for the ED's action, which is based on FIRs for the alleged irregularities in TASMAC during the AIADMK regime.
However, the Dravidian model regime has also proven that ED's action in this regard violated the law, and the Supreme Court's stay directive confirms this, the chief minister said.
He said, notwithstanding such explanations, the opposition parties will only reiterate the same allegations without reforming themselves.
Stalin alleged AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami was the one who mortgaged his party with Union Home Minister Amit Shah following raids by central agencies on premises linked to relatives and business associates in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.
