Petrol Bomb Hurled at BJP District Chief’s House in Coimbatore
This comes a day after the statue of late Dravidian leader ‘Periyar’ was found vandalised in Pudukottai district.
Miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at the residence of BJP district president CR Nandakumar in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu early on 21 March.
A car parked outside the house of was damaged in the incident, but no injuries were reported.
The bomb was reportedly hurled at around 3 am, when Nandakumar was sleeping in the house, police said.
BJP state president Tamilisai Soundararajan is expected to visit the house, Nandakumar said.
This comes a day after the statue of late Dravidian leader 'Periyar' was found vandalised in Pudukottai district.
Police were verifying the CCTV footage obtained from the cameras installed in the area to identify the miscreants. A large posse of police have been deployed in the area to prevent any untoward incident.
Police suspect that the attack on the house could be a retaliatory action to the vandalism of statues of leaders, including Periyar or against the VHP's Rath Yatra in the state.
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad's 'Ram Rajya Rath Yatra,' aimed at mobilising support to build a Ram temple in Ayodhya, reached Tirunelveli district on 19 March amid protests by a section of political parties across the state.
On 7 March, two petrol bombs were hurled at BJP office following the party's national secretary H Raja comments on Periyar.
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