Tamil Nadu BJP President Ok Annamalai on Wednesday slapped a defamation discover on DMK’s Organisation Secretary RS Bharathi for allegedly “spreading slanderous and false propaganda” towards him. Annamalai mentioned “false propaganda” towards him was being unfold to “divert the eye from the misgovernance of the DMK, which led to the dying of over 60 folks in Kallakurichi”.
“We’ve got sought Rs 1 crore in damages, which will probably be used to assemble and function a de-addiction centre in Karunapuram, Kallakurichi,” he mentioned in a tweet.
In his discover, Annamalai’s lawyer RC Paul Kanagaraj mentioned that Bharathi in a press convention made “baseless scathing allegations towards his shopper, unnecessarily blaming him for having hatched a conspiracy plan in mentioned hooch tragedy”. The discover mentioned the allegations have been meant to tarnish Annamalai’s picture.
“On the outset, my shopper was shocked to see that you simply alleged his political occasion is chargeable for the tragic deaths within the Kallakurichi hooch incident by making statements resembling ‘BJP is liable, they’ve carried out it’,” the discover mentioned. “My shopper states that you’ve got recklessly blamed him for the tragic incident and made statements like ‘It is Annamalai’s deliberate conspiracy’. These disparaging remarks made by you publicly towards my shopper are false, concocted, and incorrect.”
Within the defamation discover, Annamalai has requested the DMK chief to tender an unconditional apology inside 3 days. “You’re hereby known as upon to pay Rs 1,00,00,000 as damages, which will probably be used to assemble and function a de-addiction centre in Karunapuram, Kallakurichi.”
As many as 58 individuals have died thus far after consuming illicit arrack on June 19 in Kallakurichi, and a number of other dozens of persons are nonetheless underneath remedy in varied hospitals.
Earlier this week, Annamalai met Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi, in search of a CBI probe into the hooch tragedy. The BJP’s firebrand chief claimed that 60 lives had been misplaced because of the tragedy and in addition urged Ravi to direct Chief Minister M Ok Stalin to drop his cupboard colleague S Muthusamy, who holds the Prohibition and Excise portfolio. He accused the ruling DMK of “not being so bothered” in regards to the difficulty of “elevated availability” of ganja and illicit arrack within the final three years and “this has led to a giant suspicion.”
