Chief minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday denied meeting Adani as the US bribery charges against the business conglomerate rocked the Tamil Nadu Assembly, with the Opposition PMK pointing a finger at the ruling DMK.

“Neither did Adani come to meet me, nor did I see him,” Stalin asserted after PMK member G.K. Mani raised the matter in the House, which is sitting for a brief monsoon session.

The PMK has been a BJP ally in recent elections in the state.

Speculation has arisen in Tamil Nadu about an alleged Adani visit to the chief minister’s residence, which the PMK used on Tuesday to try and turn the tables on Stalin.

“My only question to parties like the PMK and the BJP here, which have been trying to drag the DMK into the controversy, is, are you prepared to support the INDIA bloc’s demand in Parliament on this issue (the US charges against Adani)?” Stalin said.

The Adani group has denied all the charges. However, speculation has arisen since the US authorities’ indictment mentions state-owned power distribution companies in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir, and Chhattisgarh.

The Adani group is alleged to have offered bribes to get these companies to enter into power supply agreements with the central PSU, the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), to help promote Adani Green’s ambitious solar power project.

Alluding obliquely to the matter, Stalin said state electricity minister Senthil Balaji had at least three times clarified that the MoU was between the state power distribution utility and the SECI, and not between the Adani group and the state government. Since Balaji was not in the House, Stalin said he wished to iterate that “the issue has nothing to do with the Adanis and the Tamil Nadu government”.