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Army Soldier Prabhu’s Death: BJP To Conduct A Fast And Lead A Protest March To The War Memorial In Chennai On 21 February To Condemn DMK’s Attitude, Says Annamalai
S Rajesh
Feb 19, 2023, 10:49 PM | Updated 10:49 PM IST
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president, K Annamalai said that the party would conduct a fast on 21 February at Sivananda Salai in Chennai with the participation of ex-servicemen to condemn the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (DMK) attitude towards the death of army soldier Prabhu.
Following that, on the same day, a protest march would be conducted from Omandurar Hospital to the War Memorial in Chennai.
He added that the law-and-order situation in the situation had worsened to such an extent that a DMK councillor had dared to brutally assault a serving army soldier.
Prabhu died of injuries that he sustained in a brutal assault by DMK councillor Chinnaswamy and his associates. The attack happened after an argument between him and Chinnaswamy over washing of clothes at a water tank near Prabhu’s house.
While the police have arrested all the accused in the case, issues like the DMK spokesperson TKS Elangovan calling it a ‘small thing’, and Chief Minister MK Stalin avoiding questions on the subject have drawn flak from the opposition.
An army man getting killed by a DMK councillor is a âsmall thingâ according to DMK Spokesperson TKS Elangovan. #DMK_Kills_Soldier pic.twitter.com/akmEWjSIMm
— Krishna Kumar Murugan (@ikkmurugan) February 16, 2023
In another instance, when Udhayanidhi Stalin was asked as to why was the councillor not suspended from the party, he kept saying, 'its a family dispute', ‘he has been arrested.’
#BREAKING | Republic confronts Udhayanidhi Stalin on lynching of soldier pic.twitter.com/iIQfGR6FPL
— Republic (@republic) February 17, 2023
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S Rajesh is Staff Writer at Swarajya.
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