The Tamil Nadu government has a filed a defamation suit against president of the state BJP unit K Annamalai over his recent remarks of corruption on state Chief Minister MK Stalin.

The complaint against the BJP leader has been filed under Section 199 (prosecution for defamation) of the CrPc.

The defamation petition was filed by city public prosecutor G Devarajan, which read that the accusation that were made by Annamalai were made without any evidence.

The petition also read that Stalin’s efforts in bringing social justice across the state has received a national fame and that Annamalai is doing this to fulfill his political will.

The complaint is regarding a press meet that was held by Annamalai on April 14 where he released the DMK files.

During the said press conference Annamalai charged Chief Minister Stalin alleging him of taking a bribe of Rs 200 crore in 2011 for a deal of Chennai Metro contract.

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The state BJP chief also had claimed that leaders of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) are the owner of assets worth Rs 1.34 lakh crore which were earned by corruption.

Annamalai adding to his list of allegations against the ruling party leader in the state claimed that members of Stalin’s family were directors of a firm in Dubai which is undergoing investigation in the state.

In response to these allegations of Annamalai, the state government filed the complaint in which it has mentioned that Annamalai made defamatory remarks and showed videos to malign CM Stalin’s reputation.

The ruling DMK in its legal notice against the state BJP president has demanded an apology from the latter over his statements against their leader and Chief Minister Stalin along with the party and issued a Rs 500 crore notice in lieu of the damages.

In the meanwhile, Annamalai denying of committing any offence has also said he would not apologize.

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As voters in Karnataka got about voting on Wednesday, a video has surfaced on the internet showing Congress workers performing puja of an LPG cylinder by garlanding and burning their LPG cards in Bengaluru city.

The Congress has been attacking the ruling Basavaraj Bommai government over the Centre’s continued hike in prices of fuels and LPG.

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Not only fuels, but the retail inflation impacting people’s household budgets has also become a keen point of debate among the parties.

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The price rise has been felt nationwide. Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav has said the Narendra Modi-led BJP government has been witness to the increase in prices by up to 30 per cent and the impact is being felt by the middle class.

During the last years of the UPA government under Manmohan Singh, the BJP had attacked the then Centre for hiking LPG and fuel prices among other issues. Party leaders the late Arun Jaitley, the late Sushma Swaraj and Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani had led such protests in busy thoroughfares of the capital.

Karnataka is voting for the 224-member Karnataka Assembly today and the results will be out on Saturday, May 13. While the Congress had displayed an edge at the beginning of the campaign, it was neutralised by the BJP with successive campaigns by Prime Minister Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP Chief JP Nadda. The anti-incumbency factor aside, the Janata Dal (Secular) of HD Kumaraswamy is likely to be the kingmaker, though Kumaraswamy himself boasted today of becoming king instead of a kingmaker.

The campaign which had the 40 per cent Sarkari tag will be remembered for the Bajrang Bali connection when the BJP mocked the Congress manifesto for threatening to ban the Bajrang Dal if it came to power. The BJP has unleashed a rain of sops apart from the trump cards of the Uniform Civil Code and the National Register of Citizens, which had won Assam.

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Opposition parties and industry bodies have come down on the Pramod Sawant-led BJP government in Goa after it declared May 10 as a paid holiday in the state in view of Assembly elections in neigbouring Karnataka.

On Monday, the BJP regime issued a notification declaring May 10 as a paid holiday in the state in view of the Karnataka Assembly polls.

As per the notification, the holiday also covers government servants and workers in private establishments and the industrial sectors.

However, the decision has invited sharp criticism from industry bodies and opposition parties with Goa State Industries Association president Damodar Kochkar questioning the rationale behind the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant-led government’s “absurd and stupid” decision.

In a statement, Kockhar accused the BJP government of taking industries to ransom for electoral gains and said that they are considering legal means to tackle such unilateral decisions by the government that harm the state’s industrial and private sector.

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Opposition, including the Bharatiya Janata Party’s bitter rival, the Delhi Chief Minister-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) also slammed the goverment’s decision.

Calling the holiday a “foolish decision”, AAP’s Goa chief Amit Palekar that it comes as no surprise that the BJP takes “unilateral and dictatorial” decisions in the most “undemocratic” manner possible.

The Goa Forward Party (GFP) also condemned the state government over the decision.

Meanwhie, the state government has defended the decision saying that Karnataka had also declared a paid holiday on the day of Goa Assembly polls last year and the Pramod Sawant dispensation was merely returning the favour.

Responding to the criticisms over the holiday, Goa industries minister Mauvin Godinho on Tuesday claimed that some Opposition members are merely creating an unnecessary issue over the holiday as the state government was merely following a practice.

Godinho said the Goa State Industries Association has “over-reacted”.

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