CHENNAI: Chief Minister M Karunanidhi alleged that DMDK founder Vijayakanth does not pay income tax for the entire remuneration that he gets for acting in films by saying that he has learnt that a large portion of the payment is received in ‘black’.
Taking exception to Vijayakanth’s statement that the DMDK would not ally with neither the AIADMK nor the DMK as both the parties were corrupt parties, the Chief Minister on Monday said that Vijayakanth has only made a laughing stock of him by charging the DMK and Karunanidhi with corruption.
Should not Vijayakanth have a look at his own face in the mirror before finding fault with the faces of others? Karunanidhi asked in a question and answer column for his party organ ‘Murasoli’.
Karunanidhi wondered how Vijayakanth could make an allegation of corruption against him when he had been donating - after paying income tax - the remuneration that he was paid for writing film scripts and the money he had received as gift for the Chief Minister’s fund and to other trusts with a view to helping the poor and promoting literary activities.
He in fact gave a detailed list of his charity, which included his donating of his Gopalapuram house for a hospital, and said: “Vijayakanth is saying the DMK is a corrupt party and describes another party using the same term”.
Other donations referred by him include the setting up of a Rs one crore corpus fund for giving awards to writers, forming a trust in Classical Tamil Institute with a Rs one crore for an award to Tamil scholars who contribute to the research works on Tamils heritage.