00:00The Madurai Police is questioning an AIA DMK functionary over the TBK MLA's 15 crore rupee horse trading allegation.
00:12The Madurai Central Crime Branch Police are questioning AIA DMK functionary PM Mannan
00:17in connection with TMAK MLA Mustafa's allegation that attempts were made to lure the ruling party's legislators
00:26to vote against the government in a no-confidence motion.
00:32Let's listen in to some of the reactions that are coming in on this story.
01:25The Madurai Central Crime'
01:41Anagha is with me on the phone line on this story.
01:44Anagha, what are these allegations?
01:46And there is a lot of politics brewing now over these allegations of horse trading.
01:54Yeah, in fact, it was TVK's MLA, Mr. Mustafa, is the MLA in Maghra Central Constituency.
01:59He had made this allegation that there are horse trading that's being done, you know,
02:05in order to coach TVK and MLAs and vote in favour of the no-confidence motion in Assembly.
02:10In fact, similar such attempts also made in the past in which Sendhil Balaji and his brother
02:15are right now out on conditional anticipatory bills.
02:19But now there is a second such attempt look like.
02:22The allegations made by the TVK MLA that there are attempts being done by AIA-DMK to sort
02:27of poach MLAs in the TVK to vote in favour of the no-confidence motion.
02:32And it is in this matter that the Madurai police are now questioning Mr. PM Manan.
02:37He served as the Deputy Mayor of Madurai from 2006 to 2011.
02:42He was earlier in DMK and then was later expelled in the year 2014 along with MK Alagiri.
02:47And then subsequently went on to join the AIA-DMK earlier this year.
02:51And now he has been picked up for questioning by Madurai police on this whole horse trading allegations
02:58All right, Anagar Keshav, they're bringing us the update on what's been happening and the investigation.
