The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids in Tamil Nadu over an alleged liquor scam involving TASMAC. BJP planned protests, but leaders were detained.
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00:00Alright, news now coming in, Enforcement Directorate is conducting raids over alleged liquor gate
00:10in Tamil Nadu now.
00:12Remember, after Delhi, are we looking at a liquor scam in Tamil Nadu now?
00:17BJP is protesting and likely will do that in just a short while, that will begin.
00:22Cops have meanwhile in Tamil Nadu detained the BJP leaders and workers ahead of the protest.
00:27BJP protest rally has been blocked, leaders detained, 1000 crore rupees TASMAC scam has
00:34dropped.
00:35Tamil Nadu is what the allegation is, to which MK Stalin's party leaders say, this is just
00:40Vendetta politics of how Tamil Nadu has stood defiant against Hindi opposition.
00:46TASMAC, corruption, 1000 crores has been openly declared by the ED.
00:57Only ED has told, it's a TASMAC corruption, and the TASMAC minister is known for his corruption
01:06activities and has been jailed.
01:08The atrocity of the DMK government, the fearness of the DMK government about BJP, and to hide
01:15their corruption, they are surrounding us like that, we won't fear these type of custodies.
01:23Ahead of the BJP protest, that's what the BJP netas are saying, Pramod Madhav joins
01:27me for the latest on that, Pramod tell me also about the BJP protest that's expected
01:33and then how this ED raids are happening because this sounds very similar to how it turned
01:38into big trouble for Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia in Delhi, are we looking at similar
01:43situation for the Tamil Nadu leaders?
01:46Pooja, one of the interesting factors when it comes to Tamil Nadu is that in the state
01:53of Tamil Nadu, the actual liquor consumption for the public is being sold under a banner
01:57called as TASMAC which comes under the Tamil Nadu government and this is where the enforcement
02:01directorate went ahead and conducted raids at multiple offices that belongs to TASMAC
02:05and now the ED has also released a statement claiming that three FIRs have been filed,
02:10one about selling liquor over the price, the two about the actual TASMAC officials
02:17colluding with the distillery owners and such information has been procured by them and
02:22the ED believes that this actual allegation can go up to 1000 crores and this has been
02:27picked by the opposition in Tamil Nadu government and Annamalai, the BJP leader actually had
02:32a plan by 11am to hold a protest in front of Talamudu, Nadarajal building but already
02:38the BJP leaders have been either detained or placed under kind of house custody, for
02:43example, Vinosh P. Selvam was detained in the morning while Tamarishi Soundarajan, a
02:48large police group has been placed in front of her house, Pooja.
02:52Pramod, as we stay on with this big story, more and more visuals are coming in, remember
02:56that MK Stalin is defiant, he says all of this is Vendetta politics, ED is raiding for
03:02a liquor gate controversy, tell me more about this liquor controversy, Pramod, in the sense
03:07that the government of the state clearly has decided to deny and reject any of the
03:13charges but what is this controversy that has erupted in the first place?
03:22One basic controversy that actually surrounds TASCMARC for the consumer is that like at
03:26least a minimum of 10 rupees is extra purchased, I mean to sort from anybody who buys TASCMARC
03:31liquor from TASCMARC shops in Tamil Nadu, TASCMARC shops are in large number, in fact
03:36in 20, since 2016 there have been issues where the parties have said that liquor should
03:40be banned in the state of Tamil Nadu and even the minister who is actually responsible for
03:45TASCMARC, he comes under the department called as Department of Liquor Prohibition, so this
03:50is a very big issue in the state of Tamil Nadu and the first FAR by ED is on this issue
03:54and the second one is about distillery owners actually providing kickbacks to officials
03:59from TASCMARC and several distillery like company names have also been listed by the
04:05ED over here and this is why it's a very big issue and BJP has also taken it up, very
04:09big protest was planned for the day but it looks like several leaders across the state
04:13have already been detained even not allowing them to come to Chennai itself and that is
04:17why Annamalai has also put it on Twitter stating that he is opposing whatever DMK is doing
04:22right now, Pooja.
04:23Alright, Pramod stay on with me because more and more visuals that are coming in on this
04:28story, MK Stalin's ministers are currently going to be facing the axe, Pramod which minister
04:36are we looking at in the DMK government in Tamil Nadu who possibly could face arrest
04:42in this case?
04:44Pooja, like if we go ahead with what has happened in Delhi and Telangana, there is a quite big
04:51issue that like possibility that ED can actually go ahead and make multiple arrests on this
04:55matter but for now it looks like the first person who actually can get involved is the
05:00actual minister of the department which is Senthil Balaji who was already arrested earlier
05:04in a different case and right now once again this has come to light over here and this
05:09is why BJP claims that definite action should be taken, in fact even Vijay from TVK went
05:15ahead and he released a statement yesterday demanding an independent investigation on
05:19this matter also Pooja.