Tamil Nadu BJP president Tamilisai Soundarajan today alleged that police have failed to take action against miscreants targetting party leaders and workers in the state, "despite getting intelligence reports."
"It is an irony that BJP leaders and workers, who are victims of the attack, are at the receiving end and also being punished," she said.
"Despite intelligence reports, police failed to act against miscreants, the latest incident being the hurling of a petrol bomb recently on the house of Coimbatore District BJP chief C R Nandakumar," she said, addressing party workers during a demonstration here.
She was among 650 BJP workers detained for attempting to stage a demonstration here, protesting against police 'inaction' in protecting party cadres, particulary on the recent attack on the house of Nandakumar.
Tamilisai, who led the demonstration, also alleged that many persons having link with terror outfits were arrested from Coimbatore by the National Investigation Agency.
On March 21, miscreants had hurled a petrol bomb at the residence of Nandakumar at around 3 AM when he was sleeping.
None was injured and only a car parked in the house was damaged in the attack.
BJP had then announced that a demonsration would be held here on March 23 to draw the attention of Chief Minister K Palaniswami to 'negligence' by police to provide protection.
The March 21 attack came close on the heels of the March 7 incident when two petrol bombs were hurled at the party's district headquarters here in which also no one was injured.
Police had said that they suspected the attack could be in retaliation to vandalism of statues of leaders, including rationalist icon 'Periyar' E V Ramasamy, or against the "Ram Rajya Rath Yatra", which entered Tamil Nadu on Tuesday. tomorrow.
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