The political foes-turned-friends, former AIADMK coordinator O. Panneerselvam and AMMK general secretary T.T.V. Dhinakaran, on Tuesday jointly urged the DMK government to fulfil its electoral promise of conducting a through probe into the 2017 murder and heist at former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s Kodanad estate in the Nilgiris.
At a protest meeting in Theni, Mr. Panneerselvam’s hometown, the two leaders alleged that the probe was not moving in the right direction. Sharing the dais, they alleged that the promises made by the DMK had “gone with the wind”. “They (DMK) may have forgotten, but the AIADMK cadre and the people of Tamil Nadu haven’t,” Mr. Panneerselvam said.
The DMK leaders and the police were aware of those who were behind the murder of the estate’s watchman and the suicide of others. However, almost 30 months had gone by and nothing had come out in the open, Mr. Dhinakaran said.
