Ahead of Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, the Income Taxofficials today carried out searches at four places in Chennai owned bySabareesan, the son-in-law of DMK Chief MK Stalin.
Stalin’s daughter Senthamarai is married to Sabareesan,who is said to have a major say in the DMK affairs.
As per reports, the tax department had informationregarding the movement of cash related to the election campaign for the April 6Tamil Nadu Assembly poll, following which they raided the premises ofSabareesan.
Meanwhile, last month also, the Income Tax officialssearched former minister and DMK leader E.V. Velu's residence and otherpremises connected with him.
The DMK leaders and supporters today gathered outside theSabareesan's home to protest against the raids and support Sabareesan, who hasa major role in Stalin’s core team.
A DMK leader who was present at the protest, alleged thatthe DMK Chief Stalin has a huge fan following in the state, and it’s expected hewill form his government in the upcoming assembly elections, therefore on thepretext of the centre government, the IT department conducted raids at the Sabareesan'spremises to bring a bad name to party’s image.
Besides, the searches came a day after the party raised questionsat a rally near Coimbatore objecting the rise in the assets of Union Home MinisterAmit Shah's son Jay Shah, while the IT dept being a mute spectator there.
Meanwhile, there has been no information so far if anyassets of Sabareesan have been seized. However, the DMK leader Duraimurugan saidthat “no matter what, we are not scared of these raids, we know from where itis coming, thus this won't stop our victory”.