NEW DELHI: Former Tamil Nadu BJP president Okay Annamalai on Wednesday levelled severe allegations in opposition to the DMK authorities, accusing it of orchestrating a Rs 888-crore cash-for-jobs rip-off within the Municipal Administration and Water Provide (MAWS) Division.Citing two information studies, Annamalai alleged that 2,538 posts within the MAWS Division had been bought for bribes of ₹35 lakh every.“ The DMK authorities beneath @MKStalin has turn out to be synonymous with one rip-off after one other. The ED has now flagged one more huge corruption scandal – a brazen cash-for-jobs rip-off involving 2,538 posts within the Municipal Administration and Water Provide (MAWS) Division, with bribes of Rs 35 lakh per put up.,” he stated.
Additionally learn | ‘Double requirements’: Annamalai slams Stalin over SIR oppositionHe claimed that out of 1.12 lakh candidates in early 2024, 1000’s of deserving candidates had been denied authorities jobs as a result of they may not afford the bribes.“The DMK authorities crushed their desires beneath the load of its insatiable greed,” he added.Annamalai additional acknowledged, “This newest revelation of the ₹888 Crore rip-off will not be an remoted incident however a part of a disturbing sample of systematic corruption that has turn out to be the hallmark of Thiru @mkstalin’s governance.”Calling for accountability, the BJP chief demanded a judicially monitored CBI probe into the alleged rip-off. He additionally alleged that chief minister MK Stalin personally handed over appointment orders to chose candidates on August 6, 2025, whereas celebrating “job creation,” regardless that these positions had been “allegedly bought.”
ED probes hyperlink to KN Nehru’s household
Annamalai claimed that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had uncovered a “deep-rooted” and “systemic corruption community” throughout the MAWS Division throughout its investigation right into a financial institution fraud case involving minister KN Nehru’s brother, N Ravichandran, and his True Worth Houses (TVH) group.Talking on the difficulty, state BJP spokesperson Narayanan Thirupathy accused the DMK authorities of ignoring clear warnings from the Enforcement Directorate.“The ED warned the Tamil Nadu police in April that there was a search at Minister KN Nehru’s brother’s and son’s home for a fraud of Rs 30 crores pertaining to a mortgage diversion of cash in IOB. They made it clear that loads of paperwork displaying Hawala transactions and different issues occurred throughout that point, however the authorities selected to not react to all this stuff. They didn’t do something,” Thirupathy stated.He added that the state police had did not take motion regardless of the proof.“It’s the obligation of the police to instantly file an FIR in opposition to those that have finished this. Rs 35 lakhs per job means what number of thousand crores?… A CBI inquiry is a should for this… Now we have misplaced religion in police…”