Have requested Secretariat to reconsider move to recover salary: former MLA

Veldurai says he has also received a reply that his plea is under consideration

Former Congress MLA P. Veldurai has told the Madras High Court that he has made a fresh representation to the Legislative Assembly Secretariat to reconsider its 2011 decision to recover ₹21.58 lakh from him since his 2006 election from Cheranmahadevi constituency was declared null and void after the completion of his tenure. Appearing before a Division Bench of Justices T. Raja and T.V. Thamilselvi, senior counsel AR.L. Sundaresan said his client had served as MLA for two terms and only one of his elections was set aside by the Supreme Court. Yet, in 2011, the Assembly Secretariat stopped paying him pension for the other term too. On a representation made by him, the Secretariat had now begun paying him pension for the term which was not under any dispute. However, in so far as his request to reconsider the plea for recovering the salary paid during the second term since he had served the full term, he had been told that it was under consideration.