A day after AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami criticised Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s official visit to Singapore and Japan, Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu said on Wednesday that the former Chief Minister was trying to divert attention from the acts of corruption allegedly committed by two Ministers of the AIADMK government.
In a statement, he condemned Mr. Palaniswami’s statement and referred to the gutkha scam, the Pollachi sexual scandal and the police firing in Thoothukudi that killed 13 persons during the protests against the Sterlite plant when the AIADMK was in power.