Karthikeya Sivasenapathy speaking to reporters.
COIMBATORE: DMK candidate in Thondamuthur assembly constituency Karthikeya Sivasenapathy on Tuesday alleged that he was assaulted by AIADMK men outside a polling in Selvapuram. Tension gripped outside the polling station after the members of the two parties clashed with each other.
Sivasenapathy visited a polling station at the government primary school in Selvapuram in the morning to check polling. While he was returning, Sivasenapathy was surrounded by AIADMK and BJP cadres. They raised slogans against him.
DMK cadre rescued Sivasenapathy from the crowd. A clash erupted between the members of the AIADMK and the DMK. The police intervened and pacified them.
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Coimbatore: The rural police have formed a special team to arrest the son of deputy speaker V Jayaraman, who is the AIADMK candidate from Pollachi segment, and a few others in connection with a clash with DMK cadres at Okkilipalayam.
While the Vadakkipalayam police have already picked up two AIADMK cadres, the ruling party has been putting pressure on police to release them. Police officials said they would arrest the accused, if the case was genuine.
On March 29, 28-year-old N Parthasarathy, a resident of Okkilipalayam near Pollachi, had lodged a complaint with the Vadakkipalayam police stating Jayaraman’s son Praveen and a few others had assaulted and threatened him for arranging an election campaign meeting for DMK candidate Dr Varadharajan at his village on March 28.
COIMBATORE: Following a clash between the AIADMK and DMK cadre in Pollachi assembly constituency on March 28, the rural police on Saturday formed a special team to arrest the son of deputy speaker and the assembly constituency AIADMK candidate Pollachi V Jayaraman and a few others.
A police source said that two AIADMK men were picked up by the Vadakkipalayam police and the party had pressurised police officers to release the duo. However, senior police officials clearly instructed to arrest the accused if the case was genuine.
N Parthasarathy, 28, from Okkilipalayam near Pollachi lodged a complaint with Vadakkipalayam police on March 29.
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