Senior AIADMK leader and Fisheries Minister D. Jayakumar said on Monday that the properties of those related to sidelined leader V.K. Sasikala should be frozen, even as he condemned the comments made by some of them against Jayalalithaa.
Speaking to reporters here, Mr. Jayakumar said that Sasikala and her nephew T.T.V. Dhinakaran were opportunists and the properties held by all their relatives should be confiscated.
As for the tweets of actor Kamal Haasan against the government, Mr. Jayakumar said that the actor should not go about levelling allegations against the government without evidence. There were so many democratic platforms which the actor could make use of and if he did not stop levelling allegations, the government would not hesitate to take action against him, he said.
Later in the day, known supporter of sidelined leader T.T.V. Dhinakaran and disqualified MLA P. Vetrivel questioned the absence of AIADMK leaders and Ministers near the Poes Garden residence of Jayalalithaa when I-T officials conducted searches on the premises. “We cannot stop the officials from conducting searches. But, can’t these Ministers come there, at least for courtesy sake?”
He also claimed that the AIADMK government had not commenced any scheme that Jayalalithaa had proposed in the election manifesto. “In fact, they have been shutting down ongoing schemes,” he alleged.
