The murder of 3 people belonging to political parties in the last two months in Tamil Nadu has caused great shock. Nellai Jayakumar Thanasingh, who belongs to the Congress party, and Sanmugam, a member of the Coimbatore AIADMK, were brutally killed, and now the state president of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Armstrong, has been killed in a busy area.
The opposition parties have been condemning the occasional incidents of murder and robbery in Tamil Nadu. In particular, the incident in which 3 people were murdered from last May to the first week of July has created a lot of excitement.
Armstrong, who was the state president of the Bahujan Samaj Party, was hacked to death by a group of six assailants while visiting a newly constructed house in Perampur, Chennai. Following this, his supporters were involved in a road blockade last night.
6 people have surrendered in the police station in Armstrong’s murder while there is a demand to catch the killers quickly. In this case, we can see the details of the two people who have already been killed.
On the 2nd of May last, the district president of the Nellie Congress Party, Jayakumar Thanasinghe, was reported missing by his son to the police, but two days later, on the 4th of May, he was found half-burnt in his garden.
His hands and feet were tied with wire. His autopsy showed he was cremated 4 hours after his death. Kadapa stone and iron plate were tied to his body. An investigation into his death is underway. No clue was found regarding the murder.
Similarly, the day before yesterday (July 3) an AIADMK leader was assassinated in Salem. Shanmugam (62), secretary of AIADMK Kondalambatti regional club, was murdered by mercenaries on the night of the 3rd. In this case, Sathish Kumar, husband of DMK Councilor Thanalakshmi of Salem Municipal Corporation, Ward 55, has been included as the first accused, and Councilor Thanalakshmi has been included as the second accused.
After two such murders, the third and the second murder, two days after the assassination of Bahujan Samaj Party State President Armstrong in Perambur, has caused a great shock. Murders like this are common in Tamil Nadu. Therefore, there have been demands that the Tamil Nadu government should take serious efforts to stop the murders and robberies.
