Chennai sources reported that PM Narendra Modi has arrived Chennai to inaugurate DefExpo and the security was beefed up and a large number of police personnel was deployed in and around the Chennai airport to keep the protesters at bay. Meanwhile a solid mass of protesters, with black flags and black balloons, lined Anna Salai the approach roach.



Sources stated that with protesters lined up en-route, the PM was forced to stay off roads and depend on a chopper instead to reach Thiruvidanthai, the venue of DefExpo, the prestigious exhibition that seeks to project India as one of the major defense manufacturing hubs and the police detained around 200 protesters.   

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Meanwhile as per report he PM took a chopper from the Chennai airport to Thiruvidanthai on the outskirts of Chennai. Accordingly the aircraft is on stand-by to take him to the IIT Madras campus, where the Prime Minister is expected to attend a program at the adjoining Adyar Cancer Institute later in the day. Further the opposition DMK and fringe groups had taken to the streets since Thursday morning, expressing anger against what they call the Centre's failure to form a Cauvery Management Board (CMB), where a number of actors and politicians led the protests.

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