The Tamil Nadu BJP chief said he would soon reply to DMK’s legal notice.
Chennai:
Hitting back at the DMK’s legal notice seeking an apology for corruption charges against party president and Chief Minister MK Stalin and Rs 500 crore damages, Tamil Nadu BJP leader K Annamalai on Monday urged the ruling party to do something definite. For the same amount was demanded. baseless” allegations against him.
In a statement titled “I am ready for legal action” uploaded on his Twitter page, the state BJP president also claimed that there was ‘evidence’ for alleged corruption in the Metro Rail project under the DMK regime and said that “We are going to hand them over to the CBI.” Taking a dig at DMK organizing secretary RS Bharathi, who issued the legal notice, Mr Annamalai told him that “till the (CBI) summons are issued to your party president and others involved in the matter goes”.
In a legal notice issued on April 15 after Mr Annamalai leveled corruption allegations against Mr Stalin and other party leaders titled “DMK files”, Mr Bharathi had asserted that the allegations were “false, baseless, defamatory, fictitious and were reprehensible.”
He demanded an unconditional, public apology from the former IPS officer within 48 hours of receiving the notice, saying, “The DMK president has not received a single paisa as illegal gratification from anyone in his 56 years of public life ” The party had also demanded Rs 500 crore as compensation from the BJP leader.
Mr. Annamalai referred to Mr. Bharti’s allegations that he illegally received kickbacks from a financial company for defrauding investors, calling it a “baseless, false” allegation.
Annamalai said, “I demand Rs 500 crore as damages for making baseless allegations against me and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the public domain. I want to pay the amount to the PM Cares Fund.”
He said he would soon reply to the DMK’s legal notice, besides seeking damages for leveling “baseless” allegations against him.
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