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Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati has termed the murder of K Armstrong, president of the party’s Tamil Nadu unit, as “brutal”, and said the government must act to prevent similar incidents in the future.
The 52-year-old BSP leader was hacked to death by a six-member bike-borne gang near his house in Perambur in Chennai on Friday.
In a post in Hindi on X, Mayawati said that Armstrong was “a dedicated and hardworking BSP leader”.
1. तमिलनाडु में बीएसपी के कर्मठ एवं समर्पित नेता व स्टेट पार्टी यूनिट के अध्यक्ष श्री के. आर्मस्ट्रांग की कल शाम उनके चेन्नई आवास के बाहर की गयी जघन्य हत्या से पूरे समाज में दुःख व आक्रोश की लहर। सरकार को अविलम्ब सख्त/जरूरी कार्रवाई करनी चाहिए ताकि ऐसी घटनाओं को आगे रोका जा सके।
— Mayawati (@Mayawati) July 6, 2024
According to PTI, The police have formed 10 teams to crack the case, Asra Garg, Additional Commissioner (North) said late on Friday.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin took to X and said he has ordered the police to investigate the “shocking” murder “expeditiously”.
“Bahujan Samaj Party State President Armstrong’s assassination is shocking and deeply saddening. The police arrested those involved in the murder overnight. I would like to convey my deepest condolences to all of Armstrong’s party members, family, relatives and friends who are bereaved and I have ordered the police officers to conduct the case expeditiously and bring the culprits to justice as per the law,” he wrote.
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