NE NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI/CHENNAI, OCT 23
The Bharatiya Janata Party has constituted a four-member team, including a former chief minister and a former police commissioner, to study and report the atrocities against party workers in Tamil Nadu. The delegation has been asked to submit the report at the “earliest”.
On behalf of @BJP4TamilNadu, we thank our @BJP4India National President Thiru @JPNadda avl for the four-member delegation in response to the brutal & irrational behaviour of the Corrupt DMK Government.
The DMK government has only displayed fascist tendencies since it came to… pic.twitter.com/ukG1cpm7Mg
— K.Annamalai (@annamalai_k) October 22, 2023
In a release, the BJP said, “National President JP Nadda has nominated a four-member delegation to visit Tamil Nadu, where BJP workers are facing brutal and irrational behaviour from Tamil Nadu government. The delegation will submit report at the earliest.”
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The team members include former Karnataka Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda, Satya Pal Singh, former Mumbai police commissioner, BJP Andhra Pradesh President D Purandeswari and Karnataka MP PC Mohan.
Party’s Tamil Nadu State President K Annamalai welcomed the move and said, “The DMK government has only displayed fascist tendencies since it came to power in May 2021.”
Annamalai tweeted that the party’s social media functionaries have been “constantly harassed and arrested on frivolous charges” and alleged exaggerated sections are imposed.
#WATCH | On the arrest of BJP leader Amar Prasad Reddy and other party functionaries, Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai says, "We are very clear that this evil force DMK has to be uprooted from Tamil soil… 13 BJP cadres are in jail in Tamil Nadu today. Six in the flag post… https://t.co/dTWT5KvdwQ pic.twitter.com/UzA9Hw8Ej8
— ANI (@ANI) October 22, 2023
Annamalai alleged most of the cases are being filed by DMK functionaries and police are pressurised to make the arrests to satisfy the ego of DMK ministers. He charged the DMK government and police of double standards and said no action was being taken on complaints filed by the party.
“The DMK government is known for making targeted arrests of those popular in social and mainstream media but has looked the other way towards genuine complaints filed by BJP TN,” he said.
Annamalai alleged arrests were being made without serving summons and arrests were made on the eve of weekends or before long government holidays. The party state president said the delegation will bring to light the excesses of the DMK government.
Actress Gautami Tadimalla resigns from BJP, says, ‘Dont have any support’
#WATCH | Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai says, "I spoke to Gautami Tadimalla on the phone and she demanding a very fast action…we had supported her to get the FIR registered, but now she feels that some BJP workers are trying to protect the accused. Nobody is trying to protect… https://t.co/76qTkFfA8B pic.twitter.com/8uQyA1bYGZ
— ANI (@ANI) October 23, 2023
Actress Gautami Tadimalla on Monday resigned from the Tamil Nadu’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“…Today I stand at an unimaginable crisis point in my life and find that not only do I not have any support from the Party and leaders, but it has also come to my knowledge that several amongst them have been actively helping and supporting the very person who has betrayed my trust and cheated me of my life savings…,” she wrote in her resignation letter.