Petrol bombs hurled at BJP office; 3 surrender

Miscreants hurled petrol bombs at a BJP office here in the city early today but no one was injured, the police said.
Three persons surrendered in connection with the incident and they were arrested, the police added.
Bike-borne miscreants hurled two petrol bombs at the BJP office at Siddapudur around 4 am, the police said, adding that one of the bombs hit the board of a nearby ticket booking office of Andhra Pradesh Tourism and the other landed on the road.
The attack comes in the backdrop of the reported remarks of BJP national secretary H Raja on Dravidian leader E V Ramaswamy, known as Periyar, and the removal of communist icon Vladimir Lenin's statues in Tripura.

Even as three special police teams were on the lookout for the miscreants, three persons, said to be members of the Thanthai Periyar Dravida Kazhagam (TPDK), surrendered at two police stations.
They were identified as Balan, Jeevanantham and Goutham and further investigations were on, the police said.

Meanwhile, talking to reporters after a meeting with the local BJP leaders, Coir Board Chairman and National Executive member of the BJP, C P Radhakrishnan, said the party never supported violence.
"An ideology should be fought with an ideology," he added.
Radhakrishnan, however, claimed that no one protested against those who hurled slippers at or garlanded the idols of Hindu gods with slippers or spoke ill of Hindu leaders.

On Union minister Pon Radhakrishnan's remarks that Tamil Nadu was becoming a training centre for terrorism of late and the rebuttal by the chief minister and his deputy, Radhakrishnan said today's incident was proving the comments to be true.
He asked the police to track down the "network" behind the attack on the BJP office.