Ambedkar Makkal Iyakkam executive president Ilamurugu Muthu on Monday alleged that political parties in the State remained silent on the Vengaivayal incident due to compulsions of vote bank politics.
Speaking to reporters at Pudukottai, Mr. Ilamurugu Muthu said political parties such as the AIADMK, Congress and the Communist parties had not mounted pressure with regard to the incident at Vengaivayal in the district where faeces was mixed in an overhead water tank that supplied drinking water to Adi Dravidar families.
AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami and expelled AIADMK leader O. Panneerselvam had not spoken about the Vengaivayal issue, he claimed adding that they should have lent their voice and visited Vengaivayal and stood with the affected Dalit families.
Mr. Ilamurugu Muthu accused the DMK government of trying to allow the culprits behind the incident, to escape. He alleged that investigation into the case was not proceeding on the right lines as the culprits were yet to be arrested even six months.
Mr. Ilamurugu Muthu said he had submitted a petition to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, New York, highlighting the Vengaivayal incident and sought its intervention.
