The
bjp assaulted the
coimbatore district collector's
office Wednesday, demanding that the DMK be prosecuted for removing a portrait of
prime minister Narendra Modi from the Vellalore municipality. On the 23rd,
bjp officials in the area put up a portrait of
prime minister Narendra Modi at the
coimbatore Vellalore Municipal Corporation office. When the DMK councillors learned about this, they took down the Prime Minister's photo.
BJP executives and volunteers from
coimbatore South
district, led by the party's state treasurer SR Sehgar, protested by filing a plea with the
district collector yesterday. The
police only allowed five
people inside. Others were involved in a siege conflict in front of the collector's office's entrance gate for refusing to allow it.
"Action should be taken against those who removed the Prime Minister's photo in the Vellalore municipality," he urged in a petition to the Collector. The Prime Minister's portrait should be replaced. "The
prime minister should hang the photo in the district's
government offices," they said. The
police arrested all of them who were shouting against DMK and they were taken to a nearby mandapam for few hours and later they are warned and released.