Hitting out at the DMK, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Sunday claimed it was levelling graft charges against the ruling AIADMK only out of fear of anticipated adverse verdicts against its leaders in pending corruption cases.
Taking on DMK chief M K Stalin, who has been highly critical of the Government over the issue of corruption, Palaniswami said nothing could be done to the AIADMK even when late DMK patriarch M Karunahidhi was alive and sought to know what his son can do now.
Seeking to turn the tables, Palaniswami alleged that DMK was synonymous with corruption and referred to the Sarkaria commission's report against the M Karunanidhi Government in the 1970s over the Veeranam project to cater to the drinking water needs of Chennai.
It was only after late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa introduced a new Veeranam drinking water scheme later, Chennai was getting "uninterrupted" supply.
Addressing a function at nearby Veerapanandi after distributing welfare assistance, the Chief Minister said the DMK was repeatedly making wrong calculations regarding the survival of the AIADMK ever since it was found by M G Ramachandran (MGR).
