Rally peaceful

By Our Staff Reporter

COIMBATORE, APRIL 14. With a strong security cover, the much- debated RSS rally in Coimbatore passed off peacefully. The rally began at the Power House area in Tatabad, covered a stretch of the 100 Feet Road and the Dr. Radhakrishnan Road, took the Bharathiar Road towards Avanashi Road and ended at the Corporation Girls School at Puliyakulam in Ramanathapuram area.

Barring a few petty shops, the rest on all the roads covered by the rally remained closed. Vehicular traffic was cut off and movement of the common public restricted on the rally route as part of the security arrangements to ensure no untoward incident occurred. About 3,000 security personnel drawn from the local police, Rapid Action Force, Swift Action Force and the TSP Battalion threw a heavy security cover along the procession route and at a few points where the processionists stopped to offer prayers at portraits of gods and goddesses.

The City Police Commissioner, Mr. K. Radhakrishnan and the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Mr. S. Davidson Devasirwatham, supervised the security arrangements along the entire rally route.

At the V.K.K. Menon Road-Gandhipuram junction, the Union Minister for Culture and Tourism, Mr. Ananthakumar, the All-India Executive Committee Member of the RSS, Mr. K. Suryanarayana Rao, the Hindu Munnani Organiser, Mr. Ramagopalan, the Nilgiris MP, Mr. M. Master Mathan and the RSS State president, Mr. R. V. S. Marimuthu, witnessed the rally from a dais.

The procession, led, among others, by the Coimbatore MP, Mr. C. P. Radhakrishnan, ended at the meeting venue at the Corporation School.

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