Coimbatore
“The BJP has no grudge of any sort against Vijay,” he told reporters when asked about the I-T Department action. The I-T sleuths had on February 5 raided Vijay’s residence in Chennai besides conducting simultaneous searches on several premises linked to a film production house, movie financier and distributors in connection with suspected tax evasion.
State Congress chief KS Alagiri had said there were chances that the searches could be aimed at “intimidating” the actor.
He had recalled that Vijay had courted controversy over certain dialogues against the GST and demonetisation in his film “Mersal” in 2017 with the BJP leaders opposing it.
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