A youth created a scare by climbing a cell phone tower located opposite the US Consulate on Saturday morning and threatened to jump if his demands, including resignation of Chief Minister Edappadi K.Palaniswami, Deputy Chief Minister O.Panneerselvam, were not met immediately.
He also wanted BJP State unit president Tamilisai Soundararajan to resign.
Joint Commissioner of Police T.S. Anbu and other top police officials rushed to the spot. Four personnel of Fire and Rescue Service climbed the tower and held talks with the youth. After nearly an hour, he came down. As soon as he was brought down, the police took him away in a van. Later in the evening, he was arrested and remanded.
He has been identified as R.Ravichandran, a ‘serial protester’, police sources said. Among his other demands are the rollback of sugar price hike in PDS outlets, conduct of local body polls at the earliest and an assurance that the closed Tasmac shops would not be opened.
Traffic hit
Traffic went out of gear on Anna Salai, Cathedral Road, Uthamar Gandhi Salai, as a crowd of onlookers gathered on the road, impeding movement of vehicles.
