Sporadic incidents of targeted violence on business establishments run by Keralites over the Mullaperiyar issue were reported in parts of the State on Wednesday even as police scaled up security across key business locations to prevent the situation from getting out of hand.
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa convened a Cabinet meeting to discuss the developments and review security measures following reports of violence from both sides of the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border.
Director-General of Police K. Ramanujam has warned of stringent action against those indulging in violence on establishments owned by Keralites in the State.
Claiming that police had arrested those who attacked some shops in Chennai, Coimbatore and Thanjavur, he said a special control room was set up at Cumbum to coordinate with the Kerala police. “We want to appeal to the people in Cumbum, Goodalur and the adjoining areas not to believe in rumours. In case of any information, they can get in touch with the special control room and get things clarified.”
Mr. Ramanujam said adequate manpower had been deployed in Gudalur as a precautionary measure. Besides six companies of the Tamil Nadu Special Police and 500 local police personnel, the Inspector General of Police (South Zone) Rajesh Das, one DIG and four Superintendents of Police were camping there, he said.
The DGP's statement follows attacks on business establishments run by Keralites reported from Chennai, Coimbatore, Thanjavur, Tirupur and Namakkal. In some places, jewellery shops shut down as a precautionary measure.
In most places, the protests were led by Thamizh Desa Poduvudamai Katchi, Naam Thamizhar Iyakkam and Tamil Nadu Manavar Kazhagam. In Chennai, six persons were arrested and remanded in judicial custody in separate incidents of attacking a jewellery plaza, a sweet shop and a hotel.
Tension prevailed on Cross Cut Road in Coimbatore City when a group of activists from Tamil outfits Naam Thamizhar Iyakkam and Tamil Nadu Manavar Kazhagam demonstrating in front of some business establishments run by Keralites tried to surge past the police cordon. The police arrested 33 persons in connection with the attack on a bakery in the area.
In Tirupur and Namakkal, heavy police presence thwarted attempts to vandalise business establishments run by Keralites. A group of locals forced a bakery owned by Keralites on the Kumarapalayam to Edapadi Road to down shutters over the reported attack in Kerala on Sabarimala pilgrims from Tamil Nadu. In Tirupur, a few tea stalls and eateries were forced to close. The police took six persons into preventive custody after they staged demonstration against the Kerala Government at Dharapuram.
The Confederation of Tamil Nadu Malayalee Organisations (CTMA) petitioned the Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Kerala seeking measures to protect the migrant population in their respective States. The CTMA urged Malayalees in Tamil Nadu not to get provoked by statements and continue to maintain the traditionally harmonious relationship with Tamil brethren.
Keywords: Mullaperiyar dam issue, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, Kerala, Cabinet meeting, sporadic violence, Confederation of Tamil Nadu Malayalee Organisations
The first comment made by Mr.Sharachandran literally speaks volumes.It uneqivocally stand firm in the very latest outrageous decesion of Ms.Jayalalitha to not part take in Dec.16 meeting.IF firming the chair of bureocrasy is the primordial purpose of leadership-the life of common man can no way come close to their agenda.Even if three million people perish if it can "Spring" three hundred votes our leaders will prefer the later.And we fools will keep on voting to select demagouges who keep a deaf ear to the pangs of common man once the Chair is with in their firm grip.let there be no more "Springs" any where in the world.
It seems AS USUAL the Hon'ble Supream Court is the last hope for the pangs of common man.Sure the Hon'ble court will tear open the blind eyes of the so called political saviours and save India before the dam causing any eventuality.
When will our country be like this....
A contrite former Gov. Rod Blagojevich was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in federal prison, capping one of the state's worst political scandals and humbling a controversial and defiant figure who rode into office as a champion of reform.
The sentence handed Blagojevich was the second-longest ever delivered in federal court in Chicago for a public corruption case. But U.S. District Judge James Zagel made it clear that the former governor's position and the relentless history of corruption in Illinois demanded a harsh message.
"When it is the governor who goes bad, the fabric of Illinois is torn and disfigured and not easily repaired," the judge lectured Blagojevich. "You did that damage."
The sentence is more than double the prison time given to Blagojevich's corrupt predecessor, George Ryan, and marks the fourth time since the 1970s that a former Illinois governor has been sent to prison for wrongdoing.
Blagojevich, who became the first Ill
people of kerala and tamilnadu are stand on one country. the political leaders and other people have misuse this mullaperiyar issue. the noted point is the violence of tamilnadu. we reduced it early else it produce a large issue. we are keralite beyond we are indians.
The people of Kerala and Tamil Nadu are not just neighbours. Their bonding is centuries old and there are many things in common. Any politician who is doing the "troubled water fishing" are doing it for personal gain and they are deliberately creating hatred. The political leadership at Chennai and Trivandrum should show the maturity and courage to curb any untoward incident and come heavily on miscreants. Else it will create another India-Pakistan !
Naam Thamizhar Iyakkam and Tamil Manavar Kazhagam are to be banned.We can understand peaceful protests; but to attack Malayali establishments is barbarous. Malayalis living in TN are Tamilnad citizens with ration card and voter identity card.That is how MGR became Chief Minister after migrating from Kerala. Same case with Tamils settled in Kerala. Both Malayalis and Tamils are not Pakistanis and Chinese, but Indians.Although the trouble began when Malayalis in Kumizhi attacked the Tamils, it is always good if politicians do not whip up linguistic frenzy over Mullaperiyar issue. When the matter is pending in the Supreme Court, there is no point in arranging fasts, satyagrahas, human chain etc.,This will keep the violence alive. Hooligans who attack shops should be brought under Goonda Act and punished.
I think Hindu needs to clarify whether these businesses are run by "Keralites" or "Malayalee speaking residents of Tamil Nadu". Who is a Keralite and whos is a Tami Nadu resident? How does one make that distinction. Perjhas there are tens of lacs of Malayalee speakers who are domiciled in Tamil Nadu and as such they are not "Keralites". Neither are Tamil spaking residents of Kerala "Tamil-Nadu-ites". It is disgraceful that we still make these distinctions in India.
The dispute over the Mulliperiyar dam, like any inter-state dispute in a democracy, should be settled by the Apex court on the merits of the case --- not by screaming street mobs! That some leftist, national and Hindutva parties have been swept away by narrow chauvinism is reminiscent of the failure of the European social democratic parties on the eve of the First World War! The alacrity with which TN Chief Minister Ms. Jayalalitha has acted to maintain law and order and the mature behavior of the two Dravidian parties deserve congratulations. One hopes that the Kerala and Central governments would act decisively to protect the dam and prevent mob violence!
First, you create a Frankenstein's monster and then go after it to hunt it down!! When do the politicians learn not be provocative for their personal or party political agenda and sacrifice peoples' lives!!? Any politician who divides communities or the country has to be treated as anti-national!
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