Tuticorin firing: DMK, allies hold protests

Chennai | Friday | 25th May, 2018

Summary:

The DMK leader along with party MLAs and cadres blocked the main roads and raised slogans. In Saidapet, former Chennai mayor M Subramanian and leaders from other friendly parties were rounded up after they blocked main roads and raised slogans against the state government. The wedding of the party functionary was conducted without any priests and S Marimuthu and M Priyadarshini exchanged garlands. Later he and his partymen were picked up by police and detained in a marriage hall in the town.DMK women’s wing chief and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi led a protest at Egmore and courted arrest. Soon after the marriage was over, Stalin and other party MLAs from the region addressed the crowds.Later, Stalin along with the newly-married couple left for Madurantakam in Kancheepuram district where a protest meeting was organized at the bus stand..