Chennai, June 18 (BPNS)
AIADMK general secretary, Edappadi K. Palaniswami (EPS) said that the arrested Tamil Nadu minister Senthil Balaji continuing in the Stalin cabinet was laughable.
Speaking to reporters at Attur, the AIADMK leader and former Chief Minister said that Stalin retaining Senthil Balaji in his cabinet was setting a bad example. He also said that during the periods of Karunanidhi and Jayallaithaa as Chief Minister’s, the DMK and AIADMK ministers were removed from the cabinet respectively.
He said that there was a political decency in Tamil Nadu and that it should have been respected by removing someone who was charged for corruption from the cabinet.
The former Chief Minister said that Senthil Balaji should be removed from the cabinet and added that this was a minimum political decency.
It may be noted that Senthil Balaji, the then Tamil Nadu minister for Electricity, Excise and Prohibition was arrested on June 14 by the Enforcement Directorate and remanded in judicial custody.
EPS who is also the leader of opposition in Tamil Nadu assembly said that the AIADMK has been consistently opposing the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) and added that it was notified during the Congress regime of 2011 in which the DMK was a constituent.
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