Last month, the Income Tax Department raided places related to Tamil Nadu Electricity Minister Senthil Balaji. In this situation, Senthil Balaji's house and related places have been searched by the enforcement department since yesterday morning.
Enforcers raided Senthil Balaji's room in the Chief Secretariat, guarded by central paramilitary personnel. When Senthil Balaji was the transport minister during the AIADMK regime led by Jayalalitha, a case was registered against him for illegally transferring money by claiming to provide the jobs of drivers and conductors. The enforcement department is conducting this test in this regard.
Chief Minister M.K Stalin issued a statement strongly criticizing the raid. He stated, "BJP will take revenge on the political forces through the investigative agencies at its disposal. I have already said that this is the only way they know. There are many examples of this in India in recent times in various states. "The people of the country are watching the politics of intimidation. The BJP leadership should realize that the politics of threatening those who cannot be faced politically through such an outside door is not valid. The time is approaching for them to realize it," he said.
Likewise, Congress National President Mallikarjuna Kharge has also registered his condemnation. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Nationalist Congress President Sarath Pawar, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Communist Party of India National General Secretary Sitaram Yechury have also condemned the incident. Chief Minister Stalin took to Twitter to thank the leaders for their support.
There is even a meeting of opposition parties in Patna, the capital of Bihar, on June 23 to unite the parties that are against the central BJP government. In this situation, opposition leaders from many states and leaders of national parties including Congress and Marxists have condemned the enforcement department's raids in places related to Senthil Balaji, which seems to be strengthening the unity of the opposition parties.
Unable to face the opposition leaders and ministers who criticize the BJP in a political way, the CBI, which is in its own right, launches the enforcement department and investigates it is an ongoing story. This is what has stirred up opposition parties at the national level against the BJP. Not only that, but it is well ingrained in the minds of the people of the country and is creating an anti-BJP sentiment; Creating an upheaval.
This was reflected in the Karnataka elections. It reverberated in the Delhi Municipal Corporation elections. Political commentators are of the opinion that such raids can be the cause of a new turn by uniting the opposition parties at the national level and forming a rally against the BJP in the 2024 elections!