Tamil Nadu: AIADMK Stages Walkout From Assembly Over Black Flag Demonstration Against Guv

The Leader of Opposition also demanded the home department and Chief Minister MK Stalin to take strict action against the ones responsible for alleged negligence in duty.

Leader of Opposition K Palaniswami (Image: Twitter/@EPSTamilNadu)

New Delhi: The opposition All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on Wednesday staged a walkout from the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly condemning the black flag demonstrations and alleging breach in security during Governor RN Ravi’s visit to Mayiladuthurai on Tuesday.

Claiming that the state intelligence and the home department failed to ensure security to the Governor, Leader of Opposition K Palaniswami and Deputy Leader of Opposition, O Panneerselvam led the opposition out of the Assembly.

The Leader of Opposition also demanded the home department and Chief Minister MK Stalin to take strict action against the ones responsible for alleged negligence in duty.

Palaniswami said that the state police should have ensured that the protesters were not allowed along the route that was to be taken by Governor Ravi or that the agitators should have been removed.

“Even the Governor does not have protection here. How will the common man have any protection,” India Today quoted the opposition leader as saying.

“Members who were involved in the incident yesterday say that they did it as part of their protest against the pending bills in the governor's office, while the public are looking at it as if it was a planned incident,” Palaniswami further said.

Notably, the cadres and workers of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Dravidar Kazhagam (DK), and the CPI and CPI-M staged black flag demonstrations against the Tamil Nadu Governor during his visit to Myladuthurai on Tuesday, against Ravi’s delay in forwarding the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) exemption bill to the President.

Despite deployment of police force, the agitators raised slogans like “go back governor” and “go back Ravi’’.