“These raids are meant to tarnish the image of the DMK government… only to create a bad name. Nothing would come out of the raids,” Ravindran told PTI.
The opposition AIADMK, however, claimed that the searches were conducted on the premises of those associated with the DMK’s first family.
“Series of raids by the Enforcement Directorate at the house of a friend of the DMK first family, and a relative of a state minister. TASMAC scam .. connect the dots,” the AIADMK said in a post on the social media platform X.
In Madurai, Tamil Nadu BJP chief Nainar Nagenthiran told reporters that the ED would not initiate raids for no reason.
Last month, V Senthil Balaji, who was holding the Prohibition portfolio, facing the heat of the ED raids, resigned from the state cabinet. PTI JSP ROH