Trichy: The ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in Tamil Nadu was in for a humiliation Wednesday, as alleged supporters of two senior get together leaders — Minister for Municipal Administration, City and Water Provide Okay.N. Nehru and member of Parliament (MP) Tiruchi Siva — clashed in Trichy, leaving a girl police constable injured.
The explanation for the conflict, which Opposition events have condemned and cited as a mirrored image of the deteriorating “legislation and order scenario within the state, was the Rajya Sabha MP not being invited to a authorities operate the place a badminton courtroom was inaugurated by Nehru, Siva’s son-in-law and DMK member, Karate V. Muthukumar, has claimed.
“It solely reveals the extent of legislation and order prevalent within the state. No person is protected, not even a sitting DMK MP,” BJP state president Okay. Annamalai instructed ThePrint.
AIADMK interim normal secretary Edappadi Okay. Palaniswami (EPS) additionally criticised the incident on social media, calling it “unprecedented in Tamil Nadu”. “The violent rampage inside a police station, raises doubts that legislation and order is beneath the management of thugs on this DMK regime,” EPS added.
Hitting out at Chief Minister M.Okay. Stalin, EPS stated, “What’s the chief minister, who has the police in his arms going to reply this?” The AIADMK interim normal secretary additional alleged that the folks of the state have began to grasp that each minute “this authorities continues it is just making mockery of democracy and is a risk to Tamil Nadu”.
ஜனநாயகத்தை கேலிக்கூத்தாக்கும் இந்த அரசு நீடிக்கும் ஒவ்வொரு நிமிடமும் தமிழகத்துக்கு அச்சுறுத்தலாகவும், பொது அமைதிக்கு ஆபத்தாகவும் இருப்பதை மக்கள் உணரத் துவங்கியுள்ளனர். காவல்துறையை தன்வசம் வைத்துள்ள முதல்வர் இதற்கு என்ன பதில் சொல்ல போகிறார்? 2/2 pic.twitter.com/gHiOuk23Ow
— Edappadi Okay Palaniswami (@EPSTamilNadu) March 15, 2023
In a press release launched following the incident, DMK normal secretary Durai Murugan stated 4 get together functionaries, recognized by him as Kajamalai Vijay, Muthu Selvam, Durai Raj and Ramadas, had been quickly suspended from the get together and their major membership eliminated, for his or her involvement within the alleged conflict.
Annamalai has, nonetheless, referred to as the suspensions “a typical modus operandi” of the DMK and added, “In Tamil Nadu we’re shocked and ashamed and there’s no additional phrase to explain the state of affairs within the state”.
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‘Black flag protest, automobile vandalised, and cop injured’
Based on police sources, supporters of Siva who have been current close to the MP’s Trichy residence Wednesday, waved black flags at Nehru’s convoy because the minister was on his solution to the occasion to which Siva had not been invited. The convoy included the vehicles of Trichy collector M. Pradeep Kumar, Trichy Company commissioner R. Vaithinathan and mayor M. Anbazhagan.
The six black flag protestors have been instantly detained by police, the sources added.
However quickly after the occasion received over, supporters of Nehru allegedly stormed Siva’s residence, and vandalised the parked autos, an SUV and a two-wheeler and in addition broken some home windows of the home.
In visuals from CCTV cameras accessed by ThePrint the lads additionally seem like barging into the MP’s home, pushing previous the police personnel who have been on responsibility there.
The DMK MP was in Bahrain on the time, attending the 146th Inter-Parliamentary Union based on his social media posts. ThePrint reached Siva on telephone for remark however discovered his cellular to be switched off.
However Karate V. Muthukumar, Siva’s son-in-law and a DMK member, talking to the media stated that Siva camp members have been dissatisfied as he was not invited to an occasion in his very neighbourhood. He additional accused the police of failing to offer “ample safety” to the ruling get together MP when “hooligans” barged into the home and vandalised the properties.
Police sources stated they’ve arrested 4 DMK employees, who they recognized as Nehru supporters for his or her alleged involvement within the vandalism, and tightened the safety at Siva’s residence.
In the meantime, “one other group of Nehru’s supporters” allegedly reached the periods courtroom police station, the place “the Siva supporters who had waved black flags at Nehru’s convoy”, have been being held.
Within the CCTV footage from the police station accessed by ThePrint, a lady constable seemed to be attempting to cease “the Nehru supporters” from forcibly coming into the police station and is seen getting injured within the try. The visuals additionally present the 2 teams attacking one another with chairs and different objects.
ThePrint reached Nehru on telephone, however acquired no response until the time of publication of this report.
The woman police recognized as Shanti has been admitted to a hospital for remedy. Police sources additionally instructed ThePrint that an FIR for rioting and felony trespass, amongst different sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), has been filed within the case associated to the conflict contained in the police station.
(Edited by Poulomi Banerjee)
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