CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has said that there is cheap politics behind the alleged audio tape leaks on Tamil Nadu Finance Minister PTR Thiagarajan. He said that as Thiagarajan himself has clarified multiple times on the tapes, there was no need for him to further discuss the subject and give publicity to anyone.
Stalin said, "Thiagarajan himself clarified twice and I do not want to talk any further on this and give publicity to those indulging in cheap politics." He (Thiagarajan) met Chief Minister Stalin at his Alwarpet residence on Monday. This has vanished tensions between the first family of DMK and PTR Thiagarajan after the alleged audio tape dialogues attributed to the finance minister.
It is to be noted that a day after the audio tape was released, Thiagarajan had on April 26 taken to Twitter and in a video said that the tape was fabricated using Deepfake and called it an end endavour of cheap tactics to disrupt the Dravidian model of government in Tamil Nadu.
DMK spokesman T.K.S. Elangovan earlier told media persons on Monday that the party won't file a case in the court as it was a personal attack on PTR and it was for PTR to file a case.
T.K.S. Elangovan, a DMK spokesman, had earlier informed the media on Monday that the party would not bring a lawsuit since PTR had been personally attacked and that PTR should be the one to do it.
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