Workers Arrested For Protesting Removal Of Party Flag In Tamil Nadu, BJP To Put Up 10,000
NDTV
The workers were arrested for protesting the removal of a party flag which was allegedly erected on land belonging to the highways department.
The BJP on Saturday condemned the arrest of its functionaries by the police for protesting against the removal of the party flag at Panaiyur on the East Coast Road here.
The arrest of some of the BJP cadres on the city's outskirts was "purely politically motivated, uncalled for and unwarranted," BJP National Co-Incharge of Tamil Nadu Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy said, and accused the ruling DMK of pursuing vendetta politics.
"The removal of the flagpole placed near the residence of Tamil Nadu State President K Annamalai in Chennai outskirts and the arrest of BJP karyakartas (workers) is strongly condemned... Curbing democratic rights is an unconstitutional act," Reddy said in a statement here.
