Powertrip: Karnataka minister’s hand in Ranya Rao gold smuggling, ED raids in TASMAC
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Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, and Pooja Prasanna.
In this week’s edition, learn about the involvement of a Karnataka sitting minister in actor Ranya Rao’s gold smuggling case. After the Congress set up its EAGLE team last month to look into problems in the electoral system, one particular strategy suggests pinpointing booth-level Officers and assistant returning Oofficers. The ED’s massive and meticulously planned raids on TASMAC outlets has a rattled Tamil Nadu government mulling approaching the courts for relief.
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