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Rejecting AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa’s demand for his resignation over the issue of law students clash in Chennai, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Sunday alleged that AIADMK seemed to be behind the campus violence.
“It appears as if they had incited the students to indulge in violence so as to seek my resignation,” he told reporters in Coimbatore, when asked about the demand made by Jayalalithaa and her ally MDMK chief Vaiko.
Defending the police, who came in for condemnation from many quarters for “standing mute spectators” when one group of students brutally attacked another group, he said if the police had entered the campus, media would have projected it in entirely different way.
“Had the police entered the campus, the headlines in the papers would have been different — against police,” he said.
Three students were injured in the clash on Wednesday. A day after the incident, the government had transferred city police commissioner R Sekar and joint commissioner of police Abhay Kumar Singh. Besides assistant commissioner of police Narayanamurthy and inspector Sekar Babu were suspended, while four sub-inspectors were shifted out of the city.
