South India’s greatest social reformer and Dravidian movement icon EV Ramasamy,fondly addressed by people as Periyar, was vandalised at Tirupattur in Vellore on Tuesday night. This has happened hours after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national secretary H. Raja indicated so in a Facebook post. Film star turned politican Kamal Haasan reacted on the incident. Here is his tweet.(Banner pic. twitter@sarankaran)
There is no need to deploy police for protection of #PeriyarStatue. We Tamilians will protect it.I feel that this issue is just to divert attention from Cauvery issue (formation of Cauvery management board): Kamal Hassan pic.twitter.com/88aZ7gHqcL
— ANI (@ANI) March 7, 2018