The police should follow same yardsticks when it comes to giving permission to hold public meetings, or hoisting party flags, or erecting hoarding, said leaders of various political parties other than the AIADMK.
The leaders of the CPI(M), the CPI, Congress, MDMK, DMK, and Tamil Maanila Congress submitted a petition to City Police Commissioner S. N. Seshasai.
M. Subramanian, the CPI district secretary, later told reporters that the party representatives were forced to meet the Police Commissioner as the police were using one criteria for AIADMK, and another for other parties when it came to holding public meetings, and hoisting flags.
“Some of the hoarding, and flex boards put up by AIADMK are not removed even months after the events are over. But the police show urgency to register a case if boards of any other political party was seen in public place seven days after a particular programme got over,” Mr. Subramanian said.
Similarly, the flags of parties other than AIADMK are not allowed on the dividers on the roads, he added.
