Tamil Film Actress Gautami Resigns From BJP Alleging Senior Members Enabled Fraud
New Delhi: Tamil cinema actress Gautami Tadimalla resigned from the BJP on Monday (October 23) saying that party members enabled a man who had defrauded her.
“…Today I stand at an unimaginable crisis point in my life and find that not only do I not have any support from the party and leaders [sic], but it has also come to my knowledge that several amongst them have been actively helping and supporting the very person who has betrayed my trust and cheated me of my life earnings,” Tadimalla wrote in her resignation letter.
Naming this person as C. Alagappan, Tadimalla said he took advantage of her vulnerability as a grieving daughter and the single mother of an infant child around 20 years ago to defraud her with respect to the sale of her land.
“I am at the point where my daughter and I should have been settled, safe and secure, and yet I found to my horror that Mr C. Alagappan has swindled me of my money, property and documents,” she also said in her letter.
Last month, Tadimalla lodged a police complaint against Alagappan and his wife alleging that they misappropriated funds and properties worth Rs 25 crore, the Times of India reported.
“As my health deteriorated due to cancer in 2004, I gave my power of attorney to Alagappan to process the properties for sale,” Tadimalla said according to TOI.
She also accused Alagappan of threatening her and her daughter after she tried to get her properties back from him.
In her resignation letter, Tadimalla alleged that “several senior members of the BJP have been enabling Mr Alagappan in dodging justice and absconding since the last 40 days even after the FIRs have been filed”.
She said that although the judicial process has been “inexplicably dragging on”, she hoped that justice would prevail.
The actress also claimed that the BJP had promised her a ticket from Tamil Nadu's Rajapalayam constituency for the 2021 assembly election but rescinded their offer at the last minute.
This article went live on October twenty-third, two thousand twenty three, at fifteen minutes past eleven in the morning.A journey of 25 yrs comes to a conclusion today. My resignation letter. @JPNadda @annamalai_k @BJP4India @BJP4TamilNadu pic.twitter.com/NzHCkIzEfD
— Gautami Tadimalla (@gautamitads) October 23, 2023
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