As many as 188 people belonging to the Periyar Dravida Kazhagam, MDMK, and few other outfits, including Aathithamizhar Peravai and Naam Tamilar Iyyakkam, were arrested at Udumalpet on Wednesday for staging demonstration and burning copies of a calendar brought out by the Sainik School Society in New Delhi.
Photo condemned
The agitators were condemning the photograph of a cadet from the Sainik School at Goalpara in Assam shaking hands with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Periyar Dravida Kazhagam district secretary K. Karumalaiappan said that the Sainik school officials should immediately take back the calendars distributed to its students since Mr. Rajapaksa was responsible for massacring many innocent Tamils in the island nation. “We will continue the agitation till the calendar was withdrawn from circulation.”
A large police contingent led by Additional Superintendent of Police P. Sundaravadivel arrested and removed the agitators.
The police also stepped up the security for the Sainik School at Amaravathynagar.
Clarification
Official sources clarified that the photograph was taken during a youth exchange programme of NCC cadets from the country to Sri Lanka. The cadet in the picture was one among the many NCC cadets in that entourage.
