As the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government, led by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, prepares to step into its third year in office in a few days, after a rather smooth sailing since May 2021, it suddenly finds itself under attack. Strangely, the attacks have come not from the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), the main opposition party in Tamil Nadu which has a substantial presence in the Assembly, but from its minor ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has just four legislators in the Assembly.
BJP State president K. Annamalai, by making one allegation after another against the DMK government, seems to have compensated for his party’s thin presence in the Assembly from outside, at least in the perception war.
First, he released what he dubbed as the “DMK files”, accusing senior DMK leaders of corruption and amassing wealth beyond their means. Such allegations are quite common in politics and expectedly, the DMK leadership brushed them aside and issued legal notice to Mr. Annamalai, demanding crores of rupees as damages. It is another matter that, in the process, Mr. Annamalai made certain jaw-dropping claims about his benevolent friends, footing his monthly expenses running to a whopping ₹7 lakh to ₹8 lakh.
