The Election Commission on Tuesday sent a notice to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader A Raja over his derogatory comments about Tamil Nadu ...
The Election Commission on Tuesday sent a notice to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader A Raja over his derogatory comments about Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami and his mother while campaigning for the Assembly elections, The Hindu reported.
The poll panel gave Raja, the DMK’s deputy general secretary, time till 6 pm on Wednesday to offer an explanation for his remarks, failing which the panel said it will “take a decision without any further reference” to the former Union minister, according to NDTV.
Issued on a complaint filed by the ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the EC notice referred to speeches Raja made while campaigning on March 26.
The first one was in Keelapalur, where Raja had said, “Stalin is a child of good relationship and good birth while Edappadi Palanisamy is a child of bad relationship and a premature born child”.
The second speech cited by the Election Commission was given in Meensurutti, where the DMK leader said that Palaniswamy had “crawled and held Sasikala’s feet who is almost equal in age or to say who is six months younger” to him “just for the sake of [becoming] chief minister”.
The commission said it was of of the view that the contents of the speeches made by Raja were “not only derogatory...
