CM Stalin to leave for New Delhi today

CHENNAI: Chief Minister MK Stalin will leave for New Delhi on Thursday night to invite President Droupadi Murmu to inaugurate the 1,000-bed multi-super speciality hospital constructed at Guindy in Chennai.

The Chief Minister would leave the city by Thursday night and meet the President on Friday morning, a release issued by the government said. The release said that the Chief Minister would invite the President to inaugurate the Rs 230 crore multi-super speciality hospital constructed at Guindy in Chennai.

The CM’s visit to the national capital gains significance as it happens in the backdrop of the ongoing Income Tax raids at places related to realty firm G-Square which is allegedly said to be close to members of the DMK first family.

It has been reliably learnt that the Delhi visit was originally scheduled for next week, but it was advanced owing to some ‘political’ considerations. Stalin might not be the lone political bigwig from Tamil Nadu to camp in the national capital. er of Opposition Edappadi K Palaniswami and BJP state president K Annamalai are already in Delhi, ostensibly, to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

That CM Stalin has scheduled a trip to Delhi in the backdrop of I-T raids has left tongues wagging in the political circles. Truth or otherwise, the ruling DMK has been forced to fend off barbs fired, mainly on social media, by political rivals over the Delhi visit in the midst of I-T raids. Social media users on the right of the political spectrum, which is busy popularising the I-T raids and audio tapes allegedly of state Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, are already attributing motives to the Delhi visit.