Stalin, EPS Continue To Trade Barbs Over Crimes

The war of words between Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin and leader of opposition and AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) over crimes in the state continued on Wednesday, a day after the 2019 Pollachi sexual assault case verdict where nine convicts were imprisoned for life.

- HT Correspondent

CHENNAI:

Stalin said that similar justice would be served in the 2017 Kodanad heist-cum-murder case.

"Before the 2019 Parliamentary polls, I had said that perpetrators of the Pollachi crime, however influential they may be, would be punished. That has happened," he told reporters in Ooty. The sexual assaults in Pollachi were "an indication of the evil rule under the then CM EPS", Stalin said.

The CM said Palaniswami recently visited Union home minister Amit Shah. "The nation knows the reason for him meeting Shah," hinting that it was for stitching an alliance with the BJP. "Palaniswami claimed that he had batted for release of funds to Tamil Nadu for MGNREGA and Metro Rail phase-2. Humbug, lies and trickery; these are Palaniswami's work. People are very much aware of this," he said.

To a reporter's question on the Kodanad case, Stalin said, "Just like justice was served in the Pollachi case, justice will also be served in the Kodanad case."