Animal rights activists try to breach security in bid to meet Tamil Nadu CM in New Delhi

A section of animal rights activists today allegedly tried to breach security arrangements at the Tamil Nadu House here in a bid to meet Chief Minister Edappadi K Palanisamy to put forth the issue of "illegal" slaughter houses functioning in Trichy. 

Palanisamy was in the national capital to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"Our volunteers were waiting since morning to meet the chief minister to raise the issue of missing cattles and also about illegal slaughter houses functioning in Trichy," Poonam Kumar, an activist of Dhyan foundation, said. 

When we insisted on meeting the chief minister by holding a sit-in protest inside the house, the police and TN House staff stopped us and misbehaved with us, she alleged. 

Officials in the TN House claimed that the activists were stopped when they tried to breach security as they made an attempt to meet the chief minister who was on the first floor. 

An official source in the TN House said the activists who met the Resident Commissioner yesterday were asked to wait for a few days while the commissioner took the issue to officials in the state.