NE NEWS SERVICE
COIMBATORE, FEB 12
The ruling BJP does not hold any grudges against the actor Vijay, said the former Union Minister and BJP senior leader Pon Radhakrishnan here on Wednesday.
Radhakrishnan said that the recent income tax raids carried out against the actor and few film financiers is no way connected to the saffron party.
“BJP has no grudge of any sort against Vijay,” he told reporters when asked about the I-T department action.
On February 5, the I-T sleuths raided the actor’s residence in Chennai and conducted simultaneous searches at several premises linked to a film production house, movie financier, and distributors in connection with a suspected tax evasion.
However, the President of the Tamil Nadu Congress K S Alagiri said that the searches could be aimed at intimidating the actor.
He had recalled that Vijay had courted controversy over certain dialogues against the GST and demonetisation in his film “Mersal” in 2017 with the BJP leaders opposing it.
