A day after Tamil Nadu Governor issued an order dismissing Minister Senthil Balaji and later kept it in abeyance, DMK supporters put up posters questioning Union Ministers in the cabinet with cases pending against them. A communique from Raj Bhavan informed that Governor dismissed V Senthil Balaji, accused in a money laundering case, from the Council of Ministers with immediate effect. However, the order was soon put on hold on Thursday night.
According to ANI, “DMK supporters stick posters near Anna Arivalayam, DMK headquarters in Chennai, raising questions to Governor RN Ravi against Union Ministers who are still in the cabinet with several cases registered against them.”
#WATCH | Tamil Nadu: DMK supporters stick posters near Anna Arivalayam, DMK headquarters in Chennai, raising questions to Governor RN Ravi against Union Ministers who are still in the cabinet with several cases registered against them. pic.twitter.com/M7xKqTrpzg
— ANI (@ANI) June 30, 2023
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Meanwhile, DMK leader TKS Elangovan said, “The Governor has no right, as per the Constitution, to remove any minister without the knowledge of the CM…But this Governor has never respected Constitution. He has violated Constitution continuously…Merely charged with a crime will not make him disqualified as a minister. That is the law of the land.”
On Friday, Governor put the order dismissing the Minister from the Council of Ministers on hold. The Governor sent an official communique to TN CM.
On Wednesday, Chennai Sessions Court principal Judge Senthil Balaji ordered an extension of judicial custody till July 12. On June 14, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Senthil Balaji in connection with the cash-for-jobs scam in the state Transport Department in 2014-2015 during former CM Jayalalithaa’s regime.
Currently, the Minister is recouping after undergoing Heart Coronary Artery Bypass surgery at Kauvery Hospital on June 21.
