IT raid at VCK functionary’s house
Income Tax Department officials raided a Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) functionary’s house on Tuesday.
Acting on a tipoff that ₹3.50 crore cash meant to be distributed to voters was kept at VCK functionary Perumal’s house at Melandipatti near Omalur, the officials raided the house in the afternoon, but having found nothing, left the spot.
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Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president K. Selvaperunthagai blamed the previous AIADMK government for the electricity tariff hike on Tuesday.
The TNCC president, while campaigning for Salem DMK candidate T.M. Selvaganapathy at Iruppali, near Edappadi, said that the AIADMK government led by former Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami, by signing into the Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY) scheme, hiked the power tariff, and that Mr. Palaniswami and former Electricity Minister P. Thangamani were responsible for this.
Mr. Selvaperunthagai also slammed the BJP government for making false promises to the people for the past ten years.
“The BJP promised two crore jobs per year and to retrieve black money, but nothing was done. The Union Government is supporting the big corporates, and some particular companies got more profit,” he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi claims to like the people of Tamil Nadu, but when the state was hit by floods, the Union Government refused to allot funds for flood relief, said Mr. Selvaperunthugai.
Later, the TNCC president campaigned for Namakkal KMDK candidate V.S. Matheshwaran at Athanur.