Jayalalithaa Entered Agreement With Adani Group: DMK On Commercial Link Between TANGEDCO-Adani Group

The Tamil Nadu government said that it was former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa who signed the deal with the Adani Group in 2016.

Speaking to ANI, DMK spokesperson Saravanan Annadurai said, "They said that the MoU/agreement/power purchase agreement/power sale agreement between SECI (Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited), which is BJP Government's creation, and Tamil Nadu Government first took place on 19.05.2020 when the AIADMK Government was in power.

When we came to power, we decreased the price from Rs 2.81 to Rs 2.61. Let us not forget that it was Jayalalithaa, the then-CM, who met with Adani and entered into an agreement for 25 years to purchase 1 unit of electricity for Rs 7.05. So, the corruption started when Jayalalithaa signed a power agreement with the Adani Group directly."

The DMK leader stated that minister Senthil Balaji has clarified that the DMK have had no track with the Adani group as the Tamil Nadu Electricity Department has never entered into any kind of power purchase agreement or a power sale agreement with the Adani Group directly. He added, "It is the SECI which is mandated by the BJP govt, creation of the BJP Govt which has acted as a broker for the Adani group. The officials of the SECI should be investigated and then only will we come to know the truth..."

The US court has alleged, "Following the promise of bribes to Indian government officials, in or about and between July 2021 and February 2022, electricity distribution companies for the States and regions of Odisha, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh entered into PSAs with SECI under the Manufacturing Linked Project."

On Thursday, Senthil Balaji has claimed that there has been no link witht he Adani Group in the last three years.