NE NEWS SERVICE
COIMBATORE, AUG 28
Coimbatore police have booked a case on new BJP entrant Kuppusamy Annamalai, former IPS Officer and four other party leaders for violation of lockdown restrictions and unlawful assembly here on Friday.
I thank our real heroes – BJP Thondargal – who came yesterday to welcome me at Coimbatore. @BJP4India is for YOU. We’ll jointly take on the mighty eco system that believes TN is theirs as a birth right. Indebted to your love. @Murugan_TNBJP @bjp4kovai @blsanthosh @PMuralidharRao pic.twitter.com/rciiJp7elo
— K.Annamalai (மோடியின் குடும்பம்) (@annamalai_k) August 28, 2020
The cases were registered a day after his maiden visit to the party office here. Annamalai had visited the party office in Siddhapudur area here on Thursday, during which more than 50 people, including party workers, accorded him a grand welcome, to the accompaniment of a band, police said. BJP State vice-president Kanagasabhapathy, General secretary G K Selvakumar, Treasurer, S R Sekhar and district president, Nandakumar, among others, were present.
Police said they had violated lockdown restrictions and traffic had also been held up for a while. Hence they were booked under various sections of the IPC, including 143 (Unlawful Assembly), 341 (Wrongful restraint), 269 (negligence likely to spread infection of any disease and 285 (negligent conduct), police said.
Annamalai had joined the BJP on August 25 at the party national headquarters in Delhi, asserting that he would work to bring the “nationalist spirit” to Tamil Nadu. He had described himself as a nationalist and claimed that BJP was the only party that doesn’t have “dynastic politics, nepotism or sycophancy”
