BJP state resident Tamilisai Soundararajan on Sunday alleged that the law and order situation in Tamil Nadu has deteriorated and is a cause for concern.
Addressing reporters outside the house of slain Hindu Munnani leader C. Sasikumar here, she alleged that within days of Sasikumar’s murder, petrol bombs had been hurled at a Hindu functionary’s shop at Sundarapuram in Coimbatore, and at the BJP district office in Dindigul.
Elsewhere, Hindu leaders were under threat. The State Government should take immediate note of this and beef up security, she said while demanding that Sasikumar’s killers be arrested forthwith to restore confidence among the public.
According to her, the pace of progress in investigation in the case raised doubts if the police were deliberately going slow in acting against those who were behind the murders and attacks. Her doubts were only strengthened as information was now available that the police had not acted on Coimbatore Hindu leaders’ request for protection, she claimed.
A day after Sasikumar’s murder, during the funeral procession, miscreants and those behind the murder had joined the mourners and stoned commercial and religious establishments so as to bring disrepute to the Hindu cadre who were in mourning, she claimed and alleged that it was Hindu leaders who were injured in police action - senior BJP leader C.R. Nandhakumar had suffered a head injury.
All this indicated that there was a clear design to assault Hindu leaders and portray Hindu organisations in bad light.
The BJP and other organisations were all for law and justice but the police must act in a fair manner, she added.
Ms. Soundararajan said that the BJP appealed to the Tamil Nadu Government to restore normal life in Coimbatore and announce solatium for Sasikumar’s widow Yamuna and also offer her a government job.
She would seek an appointment to meet the Chief Minister as and when the latter resumed duty.
The State unit of the party had briefed national leaders on the prevailing law and order situation in Tamil Nadu and also had a resolution passed in the just-concluded national BJP council meeting in Kozhikode.
To condemn the killing, the BJP and other Hindu outifts would stage a statewide protest on September 28.
