'Predictable script': ED raids TN minister

Chennai, Agencies: The Enforcement Directorate on Monday conducted searches at the premises of DMK leader and Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister K Ponmudy and his MP son Gautham Sigamani in a money laundering case linked to alleged illegal sand mining, official sources said.

Following searches that went on for about 10 hours, the 72-year-old minister was later taken to the ED office here by officials and he was questioned. Condemning the Enforcement Directorate raids at premises of DMK leader K Ponmudy, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday said all like-minded parties are united against the “vendetta politics” of the Modi government and shall not be bogged down by these “cowardly tactics to trample upon democracy.

This has become Modi Govt’s predictable script to intimidate and divide the opposition,” he said.