BJP Tamil Nadu chief Okay Annamalai, vocal about Islamic extremism, will get Z-category safety cowl after menace evaluation report by IB

Amidst threats from spiritual extremists and Maoists, the Ministry of Home Affairs has accorded ‘Z’ class safety cowl to the president of Bharatiya Janata Party’s Tamil Nadu unit, Okay Annamalai. Annamalai will now be supplied safety cowl by about 30 to 33 commandos working in numerous shifts. 

This comes after Intelligence Bureau (IB) in a menace evaluation report really useful enhancing Annamalai’s safety cowl after evaluating threats acquired by the Tamil Nadu BJP chief. Following this, the Union Home Ministry directed the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to supply ‘Z’ safety for the chief. Annamalai will now be licensed to have a pilot and an escort automobile in his convoy throughout his travels throughout the nation. 

It is pertinent to notice that the 38-year-old IPS turned politician has been vocal about rising Islamic extremism in Tamil Nadu, particularly after the Coimbatore automobile bomb blast on October 23 final 12 months. 

In current months, significantly throughout violent protests in opposition to the NIA raids on the premises of the now-banned Islamist outfit Popular Front of India (PFI), the state has additionally seen quite a few Molotov Cocktail assaults on the workplaces and houses of leaders of Hindu organizations. In September final 12 months, petrol bombs had been hurled on the homes and workplaces of a number of RSS members. Okay Annamalai had then written to Home Minister Amit Shah informing him in regards to the focused petrol bomb assaults on RSS leaders. 

Have written to our Hon HM Shri @amitshah avl on the deteriorating legislation & order state of affairs in our state, Tamil Nadu.
Petrol Bomb, Damaging non-public property have develop into the norm for anti- nationwide forces which DMK govt is discovering it arduous to reign them in. pic.twitter.com/N7kVO01jrH

— Okay.Annamalai (@annamalai_k) September 24, 2022

Other than this, petrol bombs had been thrown at “Kamalalayam,” the state BJP headquarters in Chennai’s T. Nagar, in February 2022.