TN speaker claims to have been threatened

Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M Appavu claimed that he was threatened allegedly by a person professing proximity to a central investigating agency for three months. Declining to go into the details on the issue, the Speaker said while reacting to the arrest of an official of the ED in Madurai by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption on a charge of bribery. The arrest only indicated the way “things have been going on” in the central investigative agencies, he said. “I learned about the arrest of the ED official through the media. This shows how the central agencies, especially the CBI, ED, and Income Tax, target the politicians and businessmen in the non-BJP-ruled states through their intermediaries,” Appavu said.