Tamil Nadu Power Minister V Senthil Balaji has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). During the examination, Senthil Balaji complained of uneasiness and chest pain, after which he underwent an angiogram and the doctors advised the minister to undergo bypass surgery at the earliest.
Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu government helped DMK leader MK Stalin Proposed that portfolios related to those now arrested by the ED be reassigned to other ministers in the cabinet.
However, Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister K Ponamundi spoke to reporters late on Thursday night and told that Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi has rejected the proposal.
Tamil Nadu’s latest spat between the state cabinet and the governor is not surprising. According to reports, Governor RN Ravi has reportedly turned down Chief Minister MK Stalin’s proposal to reallocate Senthil Balaji’s portfolio and retain him as minister without portfolio.
Front Press Journal reported that Chief Minister MK Stalin There is a proposal to allocate V Senthil Balaji’s power portfolio to Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu and excise and prohibition to senior minister S Muthusamy.
K Ponmunde also said that the Governor’s letter mentioned that the MK Stalin government’s letter was ‘incorrect’ and ‘misleading’. After this, the government retaliated and said that it is the prerogative of the Chief Minister to change the department.
“The governor had rejected the recommendation saying it was ‘misleading’ and ‘wrong’,” Ponmudi said. FPJ. Ponamundi also said, “Everybody knows it’s a fact Senthil Balaji is in the hospital.”
In particular, a ndtv The report noted that in a letter dated May 31, much before Senthil Balaji was arrested or the ED instigated the riots at the state secretariat, Governor RN Ravi wrote to CM Stalin asking him to drop Senthil Balaji from the Council of Ministers Was.
Prior to Mr. Balaji’s arrest, the Governor had written to Mr. Stalin. In his letter dated May 31, it was proposed that Mr. Balaji be dropped from the Council of Ministers.
In response, Stalin had cited Union Home Minister Amit Shah and several other Union ministers who held office despite pending cases against them.
The Chief Minister has not dropped Senthil Balaji from the cabinet, but has kept him as minister without portfolio. Meanwhile, Senthil Balaji is currently being treated in the ICU with cardiac monitoring and is being looked after by a multidisciplinary team of doctors and nurses.
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Updated: June 16, 2023, 02:50 PM IST