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Left Out of Rahul Gandhi Campaign, TNCC Pres Selvaperunthagai Claims ‘IT Raid & House Arrest’, IT Dept Flatly Denies Any Action

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What began as a dramatic claim of an Income Tax raid has now spiralled into a full-blown political embarrassment for K. Selvaperunthagai, with multiple threads from a botched speech translation to his absence from key campaign events of Rahul Gandhi converging at once.

According to ground reports and party sources, Selvaperunthagai was not invited to Rahul Gandhi’s campaign stops in Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli, and Thoothukudi. This comes just days after his now-viral translation of Rahul Gandhi’s speech at Sholinghur, where what was said in English and what was rendered in Tamil were widely mocked online as completely mismatched. Even sections within the Congress are said to believe the mistranslation was not accidental.

Against this backdrop, Selvaperunthagai on Monday morning claimed on social media that officials from the Income Tax Department had descended on his Manimangalam residence, were conducting a raid, and had effectively placed him under house arrest preventing him from leaving to attend Rahul Gandhi’s campaign.

But the claim quickly unravelled.

The Income Tax Department issued a categorical denial, stating that no raid, no search, and no action of any kind had taken place at his residence.

Despite this, Selvaperunthagai continued through the day to repeat the claim while campaigning in Kunrathur, insisting he had been stopped from attending Rahul Gandhi’s event. At the same time, DMK alliance leaders and Congress functionaries initially condemned the alleged “raid” – only for the entire premise to collapse once the official denial came through.

Adding to the contradiction, the TNCC chief, who claimed he was confined inside his house, later walked out and addressed the media, directly undermining his own version of events.

Parallelly, Rahul Gandhi carried on with his campaign, addressing meetings in Nanguneri and moving on to Thoothukudi, without Selvaperunthagai present at any stage. His absence, in the middle of a high-stakes campaign tour in his own state, has only intensified speculation that he was sidelined following the translation controversy.

Political circles are now openly linking the two developments: the embarrassing mistranslation episode and the sudden ‘raid’ claim, with some within the Congress itself suggesting that the latter may have been used to explain away his conspicuous absence from Rahul Gandhi’s events.

The controversy also drew in MK Stalin, who reacted strongly to the initial raid claim. That reaction is now under scrutiny after the Income Tax Department’s outright denial, raising questions about whether the claim was amplified without basic verification.

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