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DMK working president M.K. Stalin challenged Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami inside the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on July 21, 2017, regarding the government's handling of the illegal gutkha payoff scandal. Stalin scrutinized the Chief Minister's statement that the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption had initiated an inquiry, pointing out that state vigilance units answer directly to ministers implicated in the seized accounting ledgers.

The opposition leader argued that delegating a multi-crore corruption scandal involving the Director General of Police and senior cabinet figures to a subordinate department was an administrative farce. The Directorate had sat on the tax department's incriminating reports for nearly a year without registering a formal first information report or interrogating named beneficiaries. Stalin asserted that announcing an internal inquiry on the floor of the House was a delay tactic designed to suppress evidence and mislead legislators.

Stalin insisted that genuine accountability required an external, independent agency free from executive interference. He reiterated that protecting public health from banned carcinogenic substances demanded fearless prosecutorial action against corrupt syndicates. The DMK reaffirmed its stance that only a comprehensive judicial or central probe could deliver justice to the people of Tamil Nadu.