Balaji’s old remarks on MK create ruckus

It all started when AIADMK MLA Pauvnraj hit out at the previous DMK regime for financial difficulties in transport corporation. Raising a point of order, DMK MLA T Senguttuvan denied it.

Responding to it, Transport Minister MR Vijayabhaskar read a speech of his predecessor Senthil Balaji who as AIADMK minister blamed former chief minister M Karunanidhi for making the transport corporation to take a begging bowl. 

DMK members, however, were on their feet objecting to Vijayabhaskar for naming Karunanidhi. They sought the reference to the late leader be expunged. 

Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar said that Vijayabhaskar did not name former CM but he simply read the statement of political turncoat Senthil Balaji. Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami also insisted that there was nothing wrong in it. “You should be beware of persons like Senthil Balaji,” he said. 

After repeated disruption, Minister P Thangamani urged Deputy Speaker Pollachi Jayaraman to expunge the reference to MK to which he obliged.