Searches by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at the premises of Tamil Nadu Minister for Higher Education K. Ponmudy was merely an “expression of BJP government’s annoyance” over the meeting of Opposition parties in Patna and Bengaluru, DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said in Chennai on Monday, July 17, 2023.
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Mr. Stalin further charged that the ED searches were only an attempt to divert attention from the two-day meeting of 24 political parties which were coming together in Bengaluru with the sole objective of dislodging the BJP from the Union government.