The city police intervened and stopped the Casteless Collective from singing a song on ‘Modi’ at the Chennai Kalai Theru Vizha here.
As part of the festival, the Casteless Collective was performing at Elliot’s Beach in Besant Nagar on Sunday night.
A few minutes into the song, a policeman walked up to the organisers and asked them to stop singing “political songs”.
The crowd got angry and booed the policeman, but the singers had to stop singing. Activist Nityanand Jayaraman, who was at the venue, said they (police) had asked them not to sing about Modi. “We told them it could be Nirav Modi or Lalit Modi,” he told in a video posted on Twitter.
The police did not accept the argument and asked the organisers to proceed to the next song.
On a day when #GoBackModi was trending on Twitter during his visit to Madurai, videos of the police intervention in Chennai also went viral on social media
