Unidentified people threw a petrol bomb at the house of the Coimbatore district president of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday, PTI reported. The car of the BJP leader, CR Nandakumar, was damaged as it was parked outside the house, police said.
The incident took place around 3 am outside Nandakumar’s house in Ramalakshmi Nagar locality of the city. Police are looking at the closed-circuit television camera footage from the locality to identify the miscreants.
Police also cordoned off the area after the incident and deployed forces.
City police chief K Periaiah said five special teams have been formed to investigate the attack, The Hindu reported.
The incident came two weeks after a group of people hurled two petrol bombs at the Bharatiya Janata Party’s office in Coimbatore on March 7. Footage from CCTV cameras showed four men on two motorcycles hurling the petrol bombs and fleeing.
Both incidents came a day after statues of social reformer EV Ramasamy, also known as Periyar, were vandalised in Tamil Nadu. On March 6, two men were arrested for vandalising a statue of Periyar near Vellore, soon after a now-deleted Facebook post by state BJP leader H Raja suggested the idea.
On March 20, another statue of Periyar in Pudukottai district was found damaged.
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