Udhayanidhi accuses chief minister of diversionary tactics after DMK walkout

Tamil Nadu opposition leader Udhayanidhi Stalin accused Chief Minister Joseph C. Vijay of avoiding questions about the state’s law and order after the DMK walked out of the Assembly.

Speaking to reporters, Udhayanidhi said he had asked 15 specific questions about what he called deteriorating law and order, including recent daylight murders. Instead of answering, he said, the chief minister resorted to “diversionary tactics.”

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I am going to release the evidence for this one by one.

Udhayanidhi accused Vijay of shifting the debate to older controversies, including the Sarkaria Commission and MISA, while reading out pending Enforcement Directorate charges involving opposition leaders. He also described the chief minister’s 45-minute reply during a debate on police functioning as a “memorised cinema script.”

The opposition leader said the DMK boycotted proceedings after Speaker JCD Prabhakar refused to let it respond to what he called baseless corruption allegations made by the chief minister. He accused the speaker of acting in a partisan way to silence the opposition benches.

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Udhayanidhi also alleged that Vishnu Reddy, his brother-in-law Sujay Reddy and business partner Anil Reddy had taken control of all government-run mining operations. “I am going to release the evidence for this one by one,” he said. The individuals named did not immediately respond.

He called Vijay a “dummy” whose rise to power was an “accident,” and said the chief minister faced an unresolved Income Tax case over an alleged concealment of ₹15 crore. Udhayanidhi further alleged that an IUML legislator had recently been offered cash and a cabinet portfolio in exchange for political support. The article did not report an immediate response from the chief minister or those named in the allegations.

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memorised cinema script