Sources : BJP takes Dy CM OPS and his sons under their complete control. The carrot they dangled before OPS is ministership for OPS’s elder son OP Raveendranath, who is popularly known as General Tyre. 1/n

With OPS completely under their control, BJP targets EPS. Yesterday and today’s IT raids in Sri Pathy associates is directly targeted at Edappadi Palanisamy.

One of the Directors in this firm is Srinivasamoorthy. He is also a Director in an Erode based firm called, 2/n
Supreme Sago Industries Erode Private Limited. Along with Srinivasamoorthy, the other director in this Sago firm is one N.Ramalingam.

The Ramalingams are in-laws of TN CM Edappadi Palanisamy. The relationship between EPS and the Ramalingams are as follows : 3/n
Edappadi Palanisamy’s son Mithun Kumar is married to one Divya. Divya has a sister by name Saranya. Saranya’s husband’s brother is Chandrakanth Ramalingam. This is how the Ramalingams are closely related to EPS. 4/n
This Chandrakanth Ramalingam was earlier arrested in Bangalore in December 2016 for holding 46 lakhs of freshly minted new currency following demonetization. 4/n

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In June 2018, DMK filed a complaint in the DVAC, for registration of a corruption case against TN CM Edappadi Palanisamy, for corruption, favouritism, and nepotism by awarding Highway contracts worth thousands of crores to a firm owned by his in-laws. 5/n
The DMK in its complaint stated as follows : _ “Contracts have been awarded to these two firms at an inflated rate thereby causing undue pecuniary advantage to them only because the two firms are controlled by persons 6/n
who are closely related to Shri Edapadi Palanisami’s son Mithun. The modus it appears have to eliminate and dissuade all eligible contractors from participating in the bid by adopting intimidating tactics. 7/n
The provisions of the Transparency of Tenders Act,1998 and its rules have been violated with impunity. In fact, it is reliably learnt that Mr R Ramalingam and Mr P Sutharma who are close relatives of the Chief Minister have been 8/n
awarded several contracts amounting to several crores of rupees for the past seven years and in most of the bids there were only 2 bidders. This is not mere coincidence and needs a thorough investigation”_ 9/n
Since the DVAC, which works under EPS, failed to conduct a proper probe, the DMK moved the Madras HC. Hon’ble Justice Jagadish Chandra, after hearing the issue in detail, issued a well reasoned order transferring the investigation to CBI. EPS moved the SC immediately and 10/n
managed to obtain a stay on the same day.

A Bench headed by BJP’s judicial wing president Ranjan Gogoi, stayed he Madras HC order in 30 seconds on 30 October 2018.

This matter was never listed till date and the stay continues.11/n
Now, with BJP targeting Edappadi Palanisamy, the matter will suddenly be listed any moment for hearing.

Time for Edappadi Palanisamy to take a call about his relationship with BJP if he really cares about Tamil Nadu. 12/n
He has just two options before him. Fight or perish.
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My piece in the NY Times today: "the Trump administration is denying applications submitted to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services at a rate 37 percent higher than the Obama administration did in 2016."

Based on this analysis: "Denials for immigration benefits—travel documents, work permits, green cards, worker petitions, etc.—increased 37 percent since FY 2016. On an absolute basis, FY 2018 will see more than about 155,000 more denials than FY 2016."
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"This increase in denials cannot be credited to an overall rise in applications. In fact, the total number of applications so far this year is 2 percent lower than in 2016. It could be that the higher denial rate is also discouraging some people from applying at all.."

Thanks to @gsiskind for his insightful comments. The increase in denials, he said, is “significant enough to make one think that Congress must have passed legislation changing the requirements. But we know they have not.”

My conclusion:

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