Poster row: DMK member demands police action

Coimbatore: A DMK woman functionary threatened to commit suicide in front of the city police commissionerate on Friday demanding action against the people, who stuck posters mocking party president M K Stalin across the city.

M Chitrakala, 49, of Flower Market, a member of DMK’s Coimbatore east urban district committee, was holding a party flag. When she raised slogans against those who stuck the posters and took a bottle of kerosene from her bag, cops stopped her.

Meanwhile, DMK MLA N Karthik and members of DMK’s lawyers wing filed a petition before deputy commissioner of police G Stalin, seeking action against the people who stuck the posters.Karthik said that after spotting such posters in the city on October 25, DMK functionaries had lodged a police complaint. “But the city police did not take any action. Cops picked up DMK cadres for tearing the posters. Police are supporting AIADMK. If they fail to take action against the culprits, we will besiege the office of the city police commissioner,” he said.

DMK Coimbatore east urban district youth wing organizer Kottai Abbas also lodged a complaint with the city police.