BJP workers protest against A Raja; held
Condemning the controversial remarks made by Raja at a Dravidar Kazhagam event last month, BJP announced protests at seven places here on Tuesday. When they assembled for protest, police detained them as permission for the agitation was not granted. Slogans demanding the state govt to arrest Raja were raised when the BJP functionaries were detained.
In Saidapet, former Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan was detained along with other BJP functionaries.
Addressing reporters, Tamilisai condemned DMK govt and the "police high-handedness". Similarly, in the protest held in Sivananda Salai, police detained BJP men headed by the party's state vice-president Narayanan Tirupathi. The protest in chief minister M K Stalin's Kolathur constituency was led by TN BJP spokesperson A N S Prasad.
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"DMK's police brutality has been exposed as opposition parties are silenced and democracy is under threat. This is authoritarian rule where police are loyal to the party and not to the people," Prasad said on X.
Police said that close to 600 party cadres and functionaries including 120 women were detained.
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