According to sources a photojournalist working for a Tamil publication was attacked allegedly by members of the Congress at a party rally that was being held in Tamilnadu’s Virudhunagar. Reportedly the meeting was being held to explain the Congress manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and was led by the President of Tamilnadu Congress Committee KS Alagiri. Meanwhile Manickam Tagore, the party's candidate for Virudhunagar parliamentary constituency and former MLA from DMK Thangam Thennarasu were also present at the meeting.
Reports added RM Muthuraja, a photo journalist working for the Vikatan group, was present at the public meeting in Virudhunagar on Saturday evening. When he was clicking pictures of the event when he noticed several empty chairs at the rally and he tried to click some pictures of them, some members of the Congress spotted him and attacked him. Apparently the video shows some people, allegedly members of the Congress, slapping and hitting Muthuraja, who try to defend himself.
Moreover the anchor on stage, who was heard welcoming people to the rally, turns his attention to the scuffle, which soon involves around 10-15 people, and is heard asking, “Who is that?” Perhaps a scuffle then broke out between the cadres and the journalists which went on till Manickam Tagore reportedly came down from the dais to intervene and stop the scuffle. Meanwhile the Congress leader then took Muthuraja to a private hospital nearby and he later apologized and expressed regret for the incident, the journalists present at the spot later stated.
