A 19-year-old girl was sexually assaulted on the university campus after which the police arrested one man identified as Gnansekaran in the case. The incident has notably sparked massive political outrage in the state with the state failing to handle the situation and opposition demanding change of governance.
Several BJP leaders and workers including Tamil Nadu BJP president Annamalai was arrested on Friday in Coimbatore while taking out a Black Day rally against the DMK govt.
In an interview with India Today, Dayanidhi Maran, a former union minister, sought to dismiss the challenge posed by Annamalai in the Lok Sabha polls when he made the insulting remark
An engineering graduate and a post-graduate in management, Annamalai went on to complete his MBA in Finance from IIM Lucknow. At one point he had aspired to be an entrepreneur but gave up that dream to pursue the bigger cause of connecting with the people.
In a direct dare to Dravidian politics in Tamil Nadu, firebrand President of Tamil Nadu BJP K Annamalai has said that the statue of EV Ramasamy Naicker (EVR), also known by the epithet 'Periyar', outside the Srirangam Ranganathar Temple and all other temples would be removed