Tight security for Vijay’s visit to Tiruchi today

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Security barricades person  been enactment     up   connected  Pudukottai Road successful  Tiruchi up  of Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay’s sojourn  to the metropolis  connected  Monday.

Security barricades person been enactment up connected Pudukottai Road successful Tiruchi up of Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay’s sojourn to the metropolis connected Monday. | Photo Credit: R. VENGADESH

Elaborate information arrangements person been made successful the metropolis successful presumption of the maiden sojourn of Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay to Tiruchi connected Monday aft assuming office.

Mr. Vijay is slated to get successful Tiruchi by a peculiar craft from Chennai astir 4 p.m. connected Monday. Senior officials and TVK functionaries volition person him astatine the Tiruchi International Airport. He is expected to question successful an unfastened vehicle, to convey the voters for reposing religion successful him and the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam successful the precocious held State elections, from the airdrome to St. Joseph’s College crushed via T.V.S. Togate and Palpannai on the Tiruchi-Chennai Highway.

A pandal accommodating astir 5,000 spectators has been erected connected the assemblage ground, wherever helium volition present a thanksgiving code to the voters of Tiruchi East for electing him to the State Assembly.

It is expected that a ample fig of TVK cadres volition converge astatine the venue. All on the 13- km way of the Chief Minister, the TVK flags person been enactment up and the constabulary person erected barricades astatine vantage points to modulate the crowd.

According to sources, an elaborate information program has been enactment successful spot to thwart immoderate untoward incident. Led by T.S. Anbu, Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order), implicit 2,500 constabulary unit from antithetic districts person been deployed for the information arrangement. Four Deputy Inspectors-General of Police, 12 Superintendents of Police, 40 Deputy Superintendents of Police, and 50 Inspectors are among the unit drafted for the Chief Minister’s visit.

N. Kamini, Commissioner of Police, Tiruchi, told The Hindu that policemen were posted astatine vantage points. Traffic diversions had een made to guarantee creaseless travel of postulation successful the metropolis connected Monday.

Minister’s appeal

N. Anand, Minister for Rural Development and Water Resources, who is the wide caput of TVK, successful a societal media station said that the thanksgiving ceremonial had been arranged arsenic per the modular operating procedures of the police. The programme was lone for those fixed support by the organisers. Only 5,000 persons, who had been fixed an introduction walk with QR code, would beryllium allowed to be the function. Entry passes had not been fixed to large women, children, schoolchildren, elder citizens and radical with disabilities. They should not enactment successful the function. The participants should parkland their vehicles astatine the designated spots to guarantee creaseless travel of traffic, helium said.

The Minister said that drinking water, aesculapian attraction facilities, and indispensable services had been arranged astatine the gathering spot for the visitors. 

Published - May 31, 2026 08:33 p.m. IST

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