COIMBATORE: Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat arrived in the city from Bengaluru on Monday to attend the executive committee meeting of the organization’s Kerala unit to be held on Chinmaya Mission Ashram premises at Karunya Nagar on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Bhagwat visited Arya Vaidya Pharmacy at Ramanathapuram and paid tributes to its chairman PR Krishnakumar who died of Covid-19 recently. He will be in the city till October 29 morning. Around 20 office-bearers of RSS’s Kerala unit will participate in the executive committee meeting.
Meanwhile, a team of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel, who were on their way from the executive committee meeting venue to receive the RSS leader at the Coimbatore international airport, suffered minor injuries when a sports utility vehicle (SUV) they were travelling in overturned at Pachapalayam near Perur on the city outskirts.
The accident happened when a cop who drove the vehicle applied a sudden brake to avoid an accident. An alternative vehicle was arranged for them immediately.
To provide security to the RSS chief, the rural police had selected 60 police personnel from Armed Reserve (AR) police, whose swab samples were lifted for Covid-19 test a couple of days ago. Of the 60 cops, six tested positive for Covid-19 and the results were declared on Sunday evening. The six cops were admitted at the Covid care centre at Codissia.
Following the visit of Mohan Bhagwat, security has been tightened in the city on Monday. As many as 250 police personnel from Coimbatore rural police were deployed at the Chinmaya Mission ashram to provide security for Mohan Bhagwat round-the-clock. Around 15 CISF personnel and 15 personnel from Chennai security branch were also deployed at the ashram.