Hours after IT officials raided the MK Stalin’sson-in-law’ premises today, a blame-game erupted on social media between DMKand BJP, wherein netizens trolled BJP over EVM theft, IT raids using#ByeByeModi and #DMK4TN.
Meanwhile, DMK President and ChiefMinisterial candidate M.K. Stalin lashed out Prime Minister Narendra Modi,accusing him of conspiring against DMK functionaries. He said that PM Modi colludedwith IT officials to conduct raids at the premises of his son-in-law, assertingthat his party cannot be intimated by such threats.
Addressing a poll programme at Jayankondam inAriyalur, Stalin said: "Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Maduraiyesterday night. He conducted meetings with IT officials to conduct raid on thepremises of DMK functionaries."
He said that 30 IT officials had conductedraids at his son-in-law’s residence and 100 policemen were deployed outside.
"We are DMK and we cannot be intimidatedby the Income Tax or CBI raids and we don't fear that. I was arrested underMISA and I cannot be cowed down by these raids," he said.
Noting that such raids were conducted at thepremises of AIADMK leaders earlier, he said: "AIADMK is now controlled bythe Central government using the central agencies. This is DMK and we won'tbudge an inch by such threats."
He said that with only 3 days remaining forelections, the Income Tax raids were aimed at to confine DMK leaders andworkers at their homes.
"This won't work for DMK cadre... thisis a different party and the people of Tamil Nadu will give their answers tothis on April 6, the election day."
The DMK leader lashed out against the AIADMKgovernment over the 10.5 per cent reservation under Most Backward Class forVanniyar community, saying: "It was the DMK that gave reservation to theMost Backward Communities including the Vanniyars. It was DMK that categorisedKongu Vellala Gounder as a backward class community and provided reservation tothem."
Stalin said that Dalit Christians, Muslimsand Arundathiyars were provided reservation by late M. Karunanidhi when he wasChief Minister. "I will tread the path followed by my father KalaignarKarunanidhi once we come to power," he said.
Jayakondam is a Vanniyar-dominated communityand the AIADMK-PMK-BJP alliance is pitching the 10.5 per cent reservation forthem under the Most Backward Communities.