BJP state president K Annamalai and other leaders, including Tamilisai Soundararajan, were arrested by Chennai police while attempting to stage a protest in Egmore against the alleged TASMAC scam.

CHENNAI: BJP state president K Annamalai was arrested by Chennai police at Akkarai junction near Neelankarai on East Coast Road (ECR) while heading to Egmore for the party’s protest against the alleged TASMAC scam.
His vehicle was stopped, and after negotiations, he was detained and evacuated from the spot in a police vehicle.
Earlier, former Governor and BJP leader Tamilisai Soundararajan, along with other senior party leaders, was detained while attempting to join the protest.
Tamilisai Soundararajan stepped out of her house to attend the gherao to be held at the Tasmac office in Egmore.
The police team, led by the deputy commissioner of Police Snehapriya and officials, who were waiting outside her house from 7am onwards, prevented her from leaving her house and escorted Tamilisai to the police vehicle.
Earlier, she argued that she had the liberty to leave her house to meet the agitators. She demanded that the police should treat her on par with the BJP workers.
Meanwhile, BJP state deputy president Karu Nagarajan was arrested in front of his house too. The city police were assigned in front of the residences of the BJP state office-bearers and district office-bearers from 7 am onwards, and they blocked their houses.
Police arrested the BJP workers and office-bearers as soon as they stepped out of their houses to attend the BJP’s protest.
The arrested BJP workers and leaders were detained at a marriage hall and community hall in the city.