'I only disclosed what DMK leader said': Palaniswami on Karunanidhi 'house arrest' row

NEW DELHI: AIADMK wide caput Edapaddi K Palaniswami connected Saturday announced that if the enactment comes to powerfulness pursuing the Tamil Nadu assembly elections connected April 23, his authorities would analyse a viral video successful which elder DMK person A Raja allegedly claimed that main curate and DMK supremo MK Stalin kept his precocious father, M Karunanidhi, nether “house arrest” during the DMK veteran's last days. Palaniswami insisted that Stalin should nonstop his choler astatine Raja, not astatine him. “Mr. Stalin, don’t vent your choler connected me. Direct it astatine your lawman wide caput and erstwhile Union curate A Raja, who released the audio that went viral. I was lone reporting what Raja disclosed successful his message. Why get annoyed? Show your choler astatine Raja, and helium volition archer the truth. There’s nary constituent successful taking it retired connected me,” the ex-Tamil Nadu main curate told supporters astatine an predetermination rally successful Arani, Tiruvannamalai district. He further claimed that Stalin’s elder member and erstwhile Union curate MK Alagiri had antecedently stated that “my begetter is being held arsenic a prisoner.” “I had lone repeated what Raja disclosed. Is it just to confine your ain father, who made you the moving president of DMK, to his location during his past days? Your elder member Alagiri had said that his begetter was being held arsenic a prisoner,” Palaniswami added. Recalling Stalin’s announcement up of the 2021 assembly elections to bid a probe into the 2016 decease of AIADMK stalwart and erstwhile main curate J Jayalalithaa and her 75-day hospitalisation, Palaniswami remarked, “You said you would probe the erstwhile main minister's demise.

Karunanidhi was besides a erstwhile main minister. The AIADMK volition initiate a state-led enquiry into Raja’s audio and instrumentality due ineligible action.

” Responding to the allegations, Stalin dismissed them arsenic “baseless and offensive” and cautioned Palaniswami to absorption his disapproval connected the main minister’s performance. He emphasised that Karunanidhi was resting owed to age-related ailments and accused Palaniswami of having “crossed each reddish lines.” The counting of votes for each 234 assembly constituencies successful Tamil Nadu is scheduled for May 4.