The simmering resentment among Congressmen regarding the selection of candidates for the Assembly elections surfaced on Thursday with a number of persons, said to be Youth Congress cadre, staging a protest in front of the Mylapore Tahsildar's office here where TNCC president K.V.Thangkabalu's wife filed her nomination for the Mylapore seat.
The choice of Jayanthi Thangkabalu triggered a controversy on Wednesday evening as soon as the announcement came. A group of persons burnt an effigy of Mr.Thangkabalu in front of his residence at Adayar.
This morning also a number of persons gathered in front of the Mylapore Tahsildar's office and tried to stage a similar protest. They were removed by the police.
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Talking to mediapersons after his wife filed her nomination papers, Mr.Thangkabalu dismissed such protests as routine. In the afternoon, a group, whose leaders were said to have been ignored in selection, smashed window panes at Sathyamurthy Bhavan, the party headquarters.