Tamil Nadu BJP chief and former minister Nainar Nagendran on Monday criticised the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) authorities over the alleged allocation of ₹6.17 crore for shifting chief minister Joseph Vijay’s workplace to the tenth flooring of Namakkal Kavignar Maaligai.
Nagendran shared an official doc, which he claimed was obtained underneath the Proper to Info (RTI) Act. The doc mentioned that ₹6.17 crore had been allotted for shifting the CMO and finishing up associated works.
On X, Nagendran alleged that the expenditure amounted to a waste of taxpayers’ cash for the chief minister’s “luxurious” and private causes. He mentioned the RTI disclosure had raised questions concerning the TVK authorities’s declare of bringing about political change.
“Is the folks’s tax cash being wasted for the luxurious of Chief Minister Joseph Vijay? – Condemnation of the TVK authorities. The color of the Chief Minister, who got here to energy saying ‘I’ll carry change, I’ll do new politics,’ has pale in a short while itself via the knowledge that has come out underneath the Proper to Info Act (RTI),” he mentioned.
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Nagendran additionally questioned the choice to spend greater than ₹6 crore on shifting the workplace quickly when the federal government had introduced plans to construct a brand new Secretariat at a value of ₹1,200 crore.
“Saying {that a} new Secretariat might be constructed at a value of ₹1,200 crore, why waste so many crores of rupees to shift the workplace quickly? When there are already enough amenities within the Secretariat Fort, in what manner is it justified to spend greater than Rs. 6 crore to shift the Chief Minister’s workplace for luxurious and for his private causes?” he added.
In a recent a submit on X, Nagendran mentioned, “The Meeting isn’t your cinema studio, Mr [Vijay]” He accused Vijay of treating the Meeting as a platform for “stacked-up dialogues” and mentioned the folks of Tamil Nadu weren’t there merely to react to political rhetoric.
BJP raises farmers’ issues
Nagendran additionally questioned the federal government’s spending priorities, referring to farmers whose paddy, he alleged, was being broken by rain as a result of a scarcity of enough storage godowns.
He requested whether or not the chief minister felt it was justified to spend such a big quantity on a brief workplace whereas farmers had been struggling to guard their produce.
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“Change ought to blossom within the lives of the folks, and never on the partitions of the Chief Minister’s workplace,” Nagendran mentioned.
RTI response confirms allocation
The small print cited by Nagendran had been offered by the Public (Buildings) Division in response to an RTI utility filed on August 23.
In response to a question on the “funds allotted for shifting the Chief Minister’s Workplace to the tenth flooring of Namakkal Kavignar Maligai and finishing up associated works”, the Public Info Officer and Government Engineer mentioned that ₹6.17 crore had been allotted for the aim, as per ANI.
BJP flags murders, custodial deaths
Nagendran, on X, cited a sequence of incidents to query the federal government’s dealing with of regulation and order. He mentioned Coimbatore district, which has two ministers from the TVK, recorded 10 murders up to now month.
He additionally pointed to 2 murders reported in Chennai on a single day and claimed that six custodial deaths had occurred since Vijay assumed workplace. Nagendran alleged that some police personnel on responsibility had been treating members of the general public with disdain, resulting in a lack of confidence within the police drive.
The BJP chief mentioned the chief minister ought to have responded to those incidents through the Meeting’s dialogue on the police division’s grant calls for and brought accountability for the regulation and order scenario.
As an alternative, Nagendran alleged that Vijay behaved as if regulation and order was not his accountability and resorted to shouting and making remarks resembling dialogues from an motion movie.
He described this as “uncivil politics” and requested the chief minister to focus his Meeting interventions on points regarding public welfare.
Nagendran mentioned Tamil Nadu had no want for “father-son” tales and comparable rhetoric within the Meeting.
Vijay assaults DMK over corruption allegations
Vijay on Monday accused the DMK of corruption and alleged that celebration funds had been collected throughout its earlier regimes. Citing Enforcement Directorate paperwork, Vijay alleged irregularities within the municipal administration division and TASMAC.
He named former CM M Okay Stalin, Udhayanidhi Stalin and former minister V Senthil Balaji whereas making the allegations.
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He additionally referred to the Sarkaria Fee report and alleged tender-related corruption through the DMK authorities within the Seventies, calling the alleged practices “scientific corruption”.
The remarks triggered a protest by DMK MLAs, who entered the effectively of the Meeting and later walked out after demanding a response to the allegations.
Vijay mentioned additional scrutiny of presidency data would expose the DMK’s “false picture”. He mentioned his purpose was to serve the folks slightly than search energy.