The BJP, fazed by the unimaginable popularity that the I.N.D.I.A. bloc is steadily gaining across the country, is harassing the leaders of non-BJP governments through raids by the Income Tax Department, Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), charged Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president K.S. Alagiri.
“Since the DMK is playing pivotal role in taking the I.N.D.I.A. bloc to Indians in the most effective fashion, the BJP has unleashed its IT, ED and CBI on the Ministers here. But these coercive strategies will go in vain as the people are clear about the motives behind them,” Mr. Alagiri told reporters on Saturday. The Congress leader was participating in the party’s booth agents’ meeting held in Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi.
Mr. Alagiri said the ED, CBI and IT, which had become part of the BJP, were dancing to the tune of the ruling party’s high command by harassing the leaders of non-BJP-ruled States through motivated searches and interrogations. Since the BJP had sensed its crushing defeat in the upcoming Assembly elections in five States, it was working overtime to desperately coerce Opposition parties, including the DMK, besides employing similar strategies in Kerala, Karnataka and Rajasthan too.
