Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and workers are under attack and also victims of police action in Tamil Nadu, party State president Tamilisai Soundararajan said here on Friday.
Leading a protest condemning the petrol bomb attack on Coimbatore Urban District president C.R. Nandhakumar’s house on Wednesday last, Ms. Soundararajan said the Coimbatore party office was under attack on March 7 and, thereafter the attack on Mr. Nandhakumar’s house had taken place.
The attacks would not have happened had the police and intelligence machinery been proactive. Instead the police were keen on acting against only BJP cadre, as happened in Tirunelveli, where the police picked up the family of workers who accompanied Rath Yatra.
A few days ago, a BJP Yuva Morcha member in Coimbatore received an invitation to join the ISIS through an SMS. There was also a number he was asked to contact. The police rather than acting against such persons targeted the BJP, more so when its workers turned emotional and staged protest against police inaction, she reiterated. Senior BJP leaders Vanathi Srinivasan, C.P. Radhakrishnan, S.R. Seghar, Hindu Munnani State president Kadeswara C. Subramanian and around 500 persons courted arrest.
