CHENNAI: Minister S Regupathy has claimed that the Centre proposed names of officers it preferred for appointment as new Director General of Police for the state but the state government declined, calling it “unacceptable.”

The delay in appointing the new DGP was because of the Union government, he alleged and lashed out at AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami for accusing the state government of keeping the top post vacant “with an eye on next year’s Assembly election.

“Palaniswami appears to have forgotten how long his AIADMK government had ruled the state without a DGP. Now, he is blaming the Chief Minister (MK Stalin) who is fighting for the state’s rights,” the Minister for Natural Resources said.

He was responding to Palaniswami’s criticism that Chief Minister Stalin h

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