New Delhi: AIADMK General secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Saturday announced that if the party comes to power after the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections on April 23, his government will investigate the viral video in which senior DMK Leader A Raja reportedly claimed that Chief Minister and DMK supremo MK Stalin had kept his late father M Karunanidhi under “house arrest” during the last days of the DMK stalwart. Palaniswami insisted that Stalin should vent his anger on the King, not on him. The former Tamil Nadu chief minister told supporters at an election rally at Arani in Tiruvannamalai district, “Mr Stalin, don’t take your anger out on me. Take it out on your deputy general secretary and former Union minister A Raja, who released the audio which went viral. I was only reporting what Raja had said in his message. Why be angry? Show your anger on Raja, and he will tell the truth. There is no point taking it out on me.” He further claimed that Stalin’s elder brother and former Union minister MK Alagiri had earlier said that “my father is being kept as a prisoner.” Palaniswami said, “I reiterated what Raja had said. Is it appropriate to confine your own father, who made you the DMK working president, to his house in his last days? Your elder brother Alagiri had said that his father was being kept as a prisoner.” Recalling Stalin’s announcement ahead of the 2021 assembly elections to order a probe into the 2016 death of AIADMK veteran and former chief minister J Jayalalitha and her 75-day hospitalization, Palaniswami remarked, “You had said you will probe the demise of the former chief minister. Karunanidhi was also a former chief minister. The AIADMK will launch a state-led probe into Raja’s audio and take appropriate legal action.“ Responding to the allegations, Stalin dismissed them as “baseless and offensive” and cautioned Palaniswami to focus his criticism on the Chief Minister’s performance. He emphasized that Karunanidhi was taking rest due to age-related ailments and accused Palaniswami of “crossing all red lines”. Counting of votes for all 234 assembly seats in Tamil Nadu is to be held on May 4.