Amid the ongoing intra-party political crisis in ADMK, the party has been surfaced with fresh tensions triggered by the expedition of the cases in which the former ADMK Ministers were connected. Recently, the DMK regime has begun the process of fastening the Kodanad heist and murder case in which former Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami is alleged to have played a role. In line with that, a cheating complaint has been filed against a former ADMK Minister by her relative with the allegations that the former minister had cheated to the scale of Rs 76 lakh with fake assurances. 

According to reports, a case has been filed against former ADMK Minister Saroja, who served as the Minister of Social Welfare, Women and Children Welfare in the previous ADMK regime. In the complaint, the complainant has alleged that Saroja has cheated him of Rs 76.50 lakh with the promise that she will get a government job. 64-year-old Gunaseelan, who is a retired government employee, is the complainant and he has moved his complaint to the Rasipuram police station in the Namakkal district. He further sought police protection for his family. 

Saroja had served as the Minister from 2016-21 and represented the Rasipuram Assembly constituency. In the 2021 assembly polls, Saroja has secured a ticket from the ADMK to contest again from Rasipuram and ahead of the elections, she had moved to her new residence in the vicinity of Rasipuram and held campaign trails. Eventually, she had lost the race to DMK's candidate Madhivendhan in the margin of 1952 votes. Saroja was one of the ADMK Ministers who lost the election and four months after the debacle, a shocking complaint has been filed against her in her home turf. 

In his complaint, Gunaseelan has said, "I was working in the Tamil Nadu cooperatives department and after retirement, I have been working as a bond writer and when Saroja was serving as the Minister, she has said to us that there are vacancies in Anganwadis and a job will be assured for those who pay money. With this promise, my wife and I had reached out to our relatives and assured them that they would get a government job if they pay. With that assurance, we had managed to collect Rs 76.50 lakh from 15 people." 

He stated, "We have paid Rs 50 lakh to the minister as the first instalment and during this transaction, Saroja's husband Logaranjan was also present. With this money, the coupled had bought a new residence near Rasipuram, where they are residing currently. I have given the remaining Rs 26.50 lakh to Saroja's husband in her presence. However, Saroja didn't provide the government job as she assured for the people from whom we bought the money. People who had given money to us are now asking us to pay the money back." 

"Though we make our situation clear, they say that they had given money to us and we are responsible for that money. Due to this tension, we are mentally disturbed and I appeal to the police to provide security to me and to my family", Gunaseelan added in his complaint. The reports say that Gunaseelan is a close relative of Saroja and based on his complaint, Rasipuram police had filed a case against the former minister and launched the probe into the matter.