AIADMK general secretary and Leader of Opposition Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Friday announced that his party would organise a ‘human chain’ agitation across the State on March 12 to highlight the problem of drug menace.
Demanding that Chief Minister M.K. Stalin explain his stand categorically on the matter and the alleged involvement of the DMK’s expelled NRI wing office-bearer Jaffer Sadiq, the AIADMK leader, told journalists that there were reports of 26 cases having been filed against Mr. Sadiq. Yet, he was said to have received a memento from Director General of Police Shankar Jiwal and met the Chief Minister and Sports Development Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin. “How can such a person meet them?”, Mr. Palaniswami wondered, calling for a thorough probe into the matter.
Referring to recent seizures of drugs in the last one month, the AIADMK general secretary said the State had become a “storehouse” of drugs. Instead of the Chief Minister explaining the situation, the ruling party’s organisation secretary, R.S. Bharathi, had issued a statement.
