'Crushed dreams': Annamalai targets DMK govt over mega racket; cites ED report

NEW DELHI: Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai connected Wednesday levelled superior allegations against the DMK government, accusing it of orchestrating a Rs 888-crore cash-for-jobs scam successful the Municipal Administration and Water Supply (MAWS) Department.Citing 2 quality reports, Annamalai alleged that 2,538 posts successful the MAWS Department were sold for bribes of ₹35 lakh each.“ The DMK authorities nether @MKStalin has go synonymous with 1 scam aft another. The ED has present flagged yet different monolithic corruption ungraded - a brazen cash-for-jobs scam involving 2,538 posts successful the Municipal Administration and Water Supply (MAWS) Department, with bribes of Rs 35 lakh per post.,”

he said.Also work | 'Double standards': Annamalai slams Stalin implicit SIR oppositionHe claimed that retired of 1.12 lakh applicants successful aboriginal 2024, thousands of deserving candidates were denied authorities jobs due to the fact that they could not spend the bribes.“The DMK authorities crushed their dreams nether the value of its insatiable greed,” helium added.Annamalai further stated, “This latest revelation of the ₹888 Crore scam is not an isolated incidental but portion of a disturbing signifier of systematic corruption that has go the hallmark of Thiru @mkstalin’s governance.”

Calling for accountability, the BJP person demanded a judicially monitored CBI probe into the alleged scam. He besides alleged that main curate MK Stalin personally handed implicit assignment orders to selected candidates connected August 6, 2025, portion celebrating “job creation,” adjacent though these positions were “allegedly sold.”

ED probes nexus to KN Nehru’s family

Annamalai claimed that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had uncovered a “deep-rooted” and “systemic corruption network” wrong the MAWS Department during its probe into a slope fraud lawsuit involving curate KN Nehru’s brother, N Ravichandran, and his True Value Homes (TVH) group.Speaking connected the issue, authorities BJP spokesperson Narayanan Thirupathy accused the DMK authorities of ignoring wide warnings from the Enforcement Directorate.“The ED warned the Tamil Nadu constabulary successful April that determination was a hunt astatine Minister KN Nehru's brother's and son's location for a fraud of Rs 30 crores pertaining to a indebtedness diversion of wealth successful IOB. They made it wide that a batch of documents showing Hawala transactions and different things happened during that time, but the authorities chose not to respond to each these things.

They did not bash anything,” Thirupathy said.He added that the authorities constabulary had failed to instrumentality enactment contempt the evidence.“It is the work of the constabulary to instantly record an FIR against those who person done this. Rs 35 lakhs per occupation means however galore 1000 crores?... A CBI enquiry is simply a indispensable for this... We person mislaid religion successful police...”