Chennai
“Following the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, the farmer’s body had called for a nationwide protest seeking the arrest of those involved in it including Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra. As part of it, a call was given to burn effigies of Modi, Shah, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, and UP CM Yogi Adityanath on October 15,” the association general secretary P Shanmugham said in a statement.
However, the BJP supporters tried to prevent the protest from taking place at Mayiladuthurai and Karur.
At Mayiladuthurai, BJP supporters gave a police complaint and also gathered near the place of protest to create confusion. He said that the police arrested Auto-driver Ranjith who brought the effigies.
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