Officials search DMK Leader Kanimozhi's residence in TN
Chennai/New Delhi, Apr 16: Ahead of the April 18 Lok Sabha polls, election officials Tuesday held searches at the residence of DMK leader Kanimozhi in Tuticorin in south Tamil Nadu from where she is contesting.
Official sources indicated that the searches were held following "some inputs," but they did not elaborate.
Income Tax officials were also "assisting," the local poll officials, they told PTI.
The outcome of the searches were not known immediately.
Following information about the searches, a large number of DMK workers gathered in front of Kanimozhi's house expressing solidarity.
DMK president M K Stalin in a statement at Chennai said the raids were an outcome of "fear of a damning defeat," for BJP's candidate Tamilisai Soundararajan in Tuticorin.
She is also the BJP's State unit president.
"This is murder of democracy," Stalin said and alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has buried the autonomous feature of the Election Commission through such actions.
The DMK chief said his party would work towards ushering in reforms in the appointment of Chief Election Commissioner, Election Commissioners and State Chief Electoral Officer.
"If needed, we will not hesitate to approach the Supreme Court," he said.
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Will of people supreme, says Mahua Moitra after BJP's landslide victory in Bengal
Kolkata (PTI): A day after the Trinamool Congress faced a drubbing by the BJP in the West Bengal assembly elections, TMC MP Mohua Moitra on Tuesday said her party respects the mandate as the will of the people is supreme.
She also said that the party will continue the fight for a “secular country”.
In a post on X, Moitra said, “The will of the people is supreme. If Bengal wanted BJP, then Bengal has got BJP. We respect that.”
The BJP on Monday scripted history by winning 206 seats to secure more than a two-thirds majority in the West Bengal assembly polls, ending the TMC’s 15-year rule.
"We fought the good fight against unimaginable odds on an uneven pitch and for that I am proud of my leader & my party," Moitra said.
She said the TMC will continue to stand and fight for a secular country where the constitution, and "not brute majoritarianism, is the last word”.
