Petrol bomb was thrown at Bhartiya Janata Party’s (BJP) office in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, and a TDPK worker has surrenderd before the police in relation to the attack. There are no reports of injuries or casualties reported yet.
The reason for the attack is yet unknown, and even the assailants who threw the bomb are unknown. Police has started their investigation on the matter and the probe is going on. The police have arrested no one until now in relation with the attack.
The incident's video was captured on the camera set near the office.
Coimbatore: A petrol bomb was hurled at BJP office earlier today #TamilNadu pic.twitter.com/79x0FrjAZo
— ANI (@ANI) March 7, 2018
None of the party leader has yet commented on the attack, why the attack happened or who might have done it.
Hwoever, a worker of the Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam (TDPK), identified as Balu, has surrendered himself before the Tamil Nadu Police.
#UPDATE Petrol bomb hurled at BJP Coimbatore office: Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam(TDPK) worker Balu surrenders before Police. #TamilNadu pic.twitter.com/zLHF891Mje
— ANI (@ANI) March 7, 2018
Coimbatore: Petrol bomb hurled at BJP office. #TamilNadu
— ANI (@ANI) March 7, 2018
The incident comes hours after BJP national secretary H Raja threatened to pull down statue of social reformer EVR Ramasamy, popularly known as Periyar, in a similar fashion as Russian communist revolutionary Vladmir Lenin’s statues were razed in Tripura, where two men vandalised a Periyar statue at a municipal corporation officer in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore on Tuesday evening.