The move to rename South Street in Tiruvarur after the late DMK leader and former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi had been kept in abeyance at the behest of Chief Minister M. K. Stalin, Municipal Administration Minister K. N. Nehru said on Saturday.
Tiruvarur Municipal Council had adopted a resolution last month renaming the street in the town after the former Chief Minister. The BJP had strongly opposed the move with its State president K. Annamalai leading a protest in the town on Thursday. “The Chief Minister has instructed that the resolution be kept in abeyance and the existing name of the street remains. The BJP is looking for some issue or other to stage protests,” Mr. Nehru told reporters here.
Responding to a query on Mr. Annamalai’s reported statement that the BJP would launch a dharna in front of the District Collectorate and paralyse the district administration if the authorities went ahead with the renaming of the street, Mr .Nehru retorted: “Can an individual prevent the functioning of a government or a government official? If they do so, they will be liable to face legal action.”
