Leader of the Opposition and AIADMK co-coordinator Edappadi K. Palaniswami said on Monday that the ruling DMK hacked electronic voting machines and resorted to bogus voting and malpractice to win in the urban local bodies elections.
He led a protest at Kottai in Salem against the government for arresting former Minister D. Jayakumar in a case of election incident. The party workers raised slogans condemning the government for registering false cases against AIADMK leaders and workers.
Mr. Palaniswami alleged that the government was registering false cases against AIADMK leaders and workers to destroy the party. He said the AIADMK would have won, had the urban local bodies elections been held democratically. In Chennai’s ward 49, coming to know that Naresh Kumar, a DMK member, was trying to indulge in bogus voting, Mr. Jayakumar nabbed and handed him over to the police. He did what the police should have done, he said.
