Chennai: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) general secretary and former Tamil Nadu minister K Anbazhagan described the raids in his house and others in several parts of the state as 'political vendetta'.

The sleuths of Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption (DVAC) had raided houses of three former ministers and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leaders including Anbazhakan on November 28.

"The raids in my houses are based on baseless allegations. I will fight the case in the court," Anbazhakan told reporters after the DVAC men finished the raids. "It had become the practice of AIADMK government to raid the houses of senior DMK leaders on 'false allegations'," he said.

While the DVAC officials had taken note of television sets, refrigerators and air- conditioners in both the houses, they did not seize any documents, he added.

The DVAC had also raided the houses of Kannan, a retired education department official in the city and J Sudarsanam, principal of a teachers training institute at Madurai. This was in connection with a case on 'irregularities in the allotment of seats of teachers training institutues', when Anbazhagan was education minister in the DMK government from 1996 to 2001.

PTI