Just a day after Tamil hero and President of Tamil Film Producers’ Council (TFPC), Vishal raised his voice in support of “Mersal”, which is mired in a controversy for allegedly rebuking GST system, a team of the GST Intelligence Agency conducted raids at his office in Chennai.
According to reports, raid happened on Vishal’s office this afternoon. The raid by the GST Intelligence Agency, which probes the evasion of Goods and Services Tax (GST), is to find out if there was any evasion of GST paid by the actor’s production house.
At first, it was assumed that the Income Tax (IT) sleuths raided Vishal’s office but it came to light later that it was a team of GST Intelligence Agency.
This raid has further intensified the ‘Mersal vs Modi’ controversy in Tamil Nadu which is at a highly volatile stage. The film has reportedly mocked GST system, and it predictably didn’t go well the Tamil Nadu unit of BJP. Amidst the mounting political pressure, Tamil film fraternity, led by Vishal, came in support of the film. Vishal even targeted Tamil Nadu BJP leader H Raja for saying that he had watched “Mersal”, online, a piracy version.
This raid is being described by observers as the iron fist of BJP high command to intimidate whoever that takes the side of “Mersal”.
It may be noted that both Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, the soon-to-be-politicians voiced out in support of Mersal.