‘Have some shame’: Stalin to Modi govt on weaponising central agencies to target political opponents

Congratulating former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia on their acquittal in the orchestrated liquor policy scam, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Friday said that the BJP-led government at the Centre should not mortgage the integrity of investigating agencies for short-term political gains.

“Have some shame,” he told the Modi government in a social media post, describing the acquittal as a vindication of truth. “Well done, my respected friend Thiru @ArvindKejriwal, and Thiru @msisodia, for standing firm through it all and letting the truth speak for itself,” Stalin wrote on ‘X’.

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The Chief Minister was reacting to a Delhi court discharging Kejriwal and Sisodia in the alleged liquor policy scam and pulling up the CBI for implicating the two leaders without any material evidence.

The DMK leadership enjoys a close personal rapport with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Kejriwal.

Ahead of the assembly elections, the DMK, too, is apprehensive of an offensive from central agencies and has been maintaining that it cannot be coerced or intimidated. Earlier this week, Stalin, while accusing the BJP of misusing the CBI, Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax Department and other central investigating agencies, asserted that the DMK was prepared to face any action by them. Describing the deployment of investigative agencies against opposition parties as a ‘political witch-hunt’, he said this betrays the desperation of the BJP. The Chief Minister also charged the BJP with threatening parties to join the NDA, as several of them were facing corruption cases.

The DMK will use Kejriwal’s acquittal in the alleged liquor scam to the hilt in the poll campaign to take on the BJP-AIADMK combine.