Tension prevailed on Kalingarayan Street in Royapuram, after some miscreants defaced the statue of former Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran, on Wednesday.
The Tondiarpet Police, on being alerted, examined the statue, and are investigating.
A police officer of the Tondiarpet station said the statue of the AIADMK party founder and former Chief Minister MGR was installed on Kalingarayan Street in 1994. On Wednesday, residents in the locality were shocked to find the statue defaced, with paint on its face. Immediately, the Tondiarpet police were informed about the incident.
A police team is checking closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras installed in the locality to identify the miscreants, the police officer said.
AIADMK organisation secretary and former Fisheries Minister D. Jayakumar stated that he had overseen the work of clearing the defacement of the bust. Earlier in the day, the party’s general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami and the AMMK’s founder T.T.V. Dhinakaran deplored the defacement and wanted the authorities to take action against those responsible for the incident.
