AIADMK's CLear cash-for-vote scam:
State government's announcement of distribution of one-time financial aid (of ₹2000) to 60 lakh Below Poverty Line (BPL) families is aimed at bribing voters ahead of the Lok Sabha election. In January 2019, Government has given ₹1000 Pongal gift to 2.80 crore ration card holders when the state is “reeling under the debt burden of ₹4 lakh crore.”
With its third extension currently underway, the Justice Arumughasamy Commission is expected to file its final report on 24 February 2019.
With several senior bureaucrats, close aides, household staff from Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden residence and multiple doctors testifying before the committee, Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam has been summoned to the Justice Arumughasamy Commission for the fifth time (19 Dec 2018, 8 Jan 2019, 23 Jan, 29 Jan, 5 Feb)