The income tax department on Thursday carried out searches at nearly 40 premises linked to senior Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (DMK) leader and Lok Sabha member S Jagathrakshakan.
Jagathrakshakan is the former union minister and a four-time MP.
The income tax department hasn’t issued a formal statement on the searches.
Chief minister MK Stalin said in a post on X that it was time the BJP stop their witch-hunt.
“The Union BJP Government’s vindictive politics knows no bounds! Arresting AAP MP Sanjay Singh and raiding DMK MP Jagathrakshakan’s home are clear examples of their misuse of independent investigating agencies for political ends against INDIA bloc leaders.” Stalin said.
“The BJP is clearly afraid of the growing unity among opposition parties. It’s time they stop their witch-hunt and focus on addressing the real issues,” the DMK chief said.
“The BJP conveniently forgets that the Supreme Court has just warned the ED to be transparent and fair. But it seems they are hell-bent on disregarding the rule of law and democracy,” Stalin said, referring to the recent Supreme Court judgment that questioned ED’s “style of functioning” and directed it to maintain “pristine standards of probity and fairness” instead of being vindictive.
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