The Madras High Court has upheld a 2008 state housing allotment of an 11,854 sq ft plot in Chennai's Anna Nagar Western Extension to film star C. Joseph Vijay, now Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister.
The case was filed in 2009 by Shenoy Nagar resident R. Karthikeyan, whose late father had owned large parts of Padi village. In 1969, the state took 2.37 acres from his father there for a Housing Board scheme in Korattur.
An election petition alleging the built-up property was sold is still awaiting a verdict.
DMK spokesperson TKS Elangovan has fired back at the TVK government, claiming the BJP got Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay into office by improper means. He said EVM manipulation and SIR, not voters, brought him to power.
The row centres on book purchases for the Periyar Arivalayam library in Coimbatore. Vijay accused the previous DMK government of corruption over them, but Elangovan rejected that and suggested the book choices were a TVK scheme.
He also alleged the BJP had asked the TVK to target the DMK, and that the party was doing so to shield Vijay from the BJP itself.
DMK president M.K. Stalin, a former Tamil Nadu chief minister, has accused CM C Joseph Vijay of staging raids for publicity before the Tiruchirappalli East by-election. He said the state has become unsafe for women, children and the elderly.
DVAC officials questioned former minister K.N. Nehru, a DMK principal secretary, for over an hour at his Tiruchirappalli home, with more than 200 party workers gathering outside.
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