BJP Protested CPI
BJP workers squatting on Huzur Road in Coimbatore being removed by the police on Saturday. Tense moments prevailed on Huzur Road in front of Red Cross Society buildings on Saturday when BJP workers staged a demonstration and later squatted on the road with black flags in protest against the visit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) leaders to the city. Tense moments prevailed on Huzur Road in front of Red Cross Society buildings on Saturday when BJP workers staged a demonstrationThe BJP State Observer, S.R. Seghar, had called for a demonstration opposing the visit of the Kerala Chief Minister, V.S. Achuthanandan, and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. The agitators accused the CPI (M) of adopting double standards on national and international issues. They criticised the Kerala Chief Minister for the violence at Kannur and betraying the interests of Tamil Nadu on the Mullaperiyar dam issue.
They flayed the West Bengal Chief Minister for the Nandigram violence and for supporting industrialists. The cadres also questioned the CPI (M) for staging agitations opposing the Central and State Government schemes after having supported the decisions of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led Democratic Progressive Alliance Government in the State. Even as the demonstration was going on, a section of the crowd resorted to a black flag agitation and when the police tried to prevent it, the cadre squatted on the road causing commotion. The police removed about 150 activists.
30.03.2008.
