Several media reports also said that the picture was removed from the government office as the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) is unhappy with the BJP’s lead in Tamil Nadu. (PTI/file photo)
According to reports, Anjammal was asked by her husband to remove the picture, after which he took it down and handed it over to the executive officer.
A political controversy has erupted in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur district after Anjammal, president of Veppathur town panchayat, removed a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which was hung by a BJP ward member, from a local body office.
BJP’s Chandrasekaran had allegedly hung a picture of PM Modi inside the office without informing anyone.
According to reports, Anjammal was asked by her husband to remove the picture, after which he took it down and handed it over to the executive officer. A video of it was allegedly shot by BJP members and has now gone viral on social media.
Anjammal was recently elected president for Veppathur town panchayat in Thanjavur district.
BJP workers in Kumbakonam lodged a complaint with Tiruvidaimaruthur police demanding action against the officer. They can also stage a sit-in outside the Nagar Panchayat office on Monday.
Several media reports also said that the picture was removed from the government office as the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) is unhappy with the BJP’s lead in Tamil Nadu.
In January 2022, BJP trade union district secretary M Bhaskaran was arrested after forcibly hanging a portrait of PM Modi on one of the walls of the Coimbatore panchayat office.
Bhaskaran had then claimed that when repeated appeals were made to the panchayat office to put up the picture, the BJP members themselves put up the picture.
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