Coimbatore: Tension prevailed on Oppanakara Street at Town Hall on Wednesday after some right-wing cadres forced shopkeepers to down shutters during the bike rally organized as part of the BJP candidate’s election campaign. The cadres threw stones and sticks at the shops and cops stepped in to diffuse the situation, sources said.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath was in the city to campaign for party’s Coimbatore South candidate Vanathi Srinivasan. He was supposed to join Vanathi in leading the bike rally after visiting Puliyakulam Vinayagar Temple. But citing security reasons, he refused to join her in the campaign vehicle and left for the public gathering at Thermutti in Town Hall.