Chennai sources have stated that TTV Dinakaran, the AIADMK's sidelined number 2 slammed the Tamil Nadu government over raids at former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha's Poes Garden residence in Chennai late on Friday evening calling the move as "betrayal" and "political vendetta".
Meanwhile alleging that Tamilnadu Chief Minister
E Palaniswami and his deputy O Panneerselvam were indulging in "vendetta
politics", Mr. Dinakaran said, "Poes Garden is a place where our
beloved Amma's (Jayalalitha) lived, it is like a temple. E Palaniswami and Panneerselvam
have betrayed Amma's soul."
Moreover he also attacked Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over raids. "PM
and Arun Jaitley are trying to destroy our family using IT Department," Mr
Dinakarana said, adding that "OPS and EPS will go to any extent to
safeguard their positions." Furthermore the search, according to the
officials, was limited to two rooms that were used by VK Sasikala, the closest
aide of Ms Jayalalitha who died last year in December, and a third room used by
the AIADMK matriarch's personal secretary S Poongundran. A senior
tax official told they searched only the office of S Poongundran and two rooms
of Sasikala”.
