Thiruvananthapuram: To protest the arrest
of their leader Abdul Naser Madani in the Bangalore blast
case, PDP today said that the party would observe tomorrow
as black day throughout the state.
Talking to reporters at the airport, Madani said that
PDP workers should not create a law and order situation in
the state in connection with his arrest.
`No one should try to create communal divide over the
issue, he added.
PDP Working Chairman Punthura Siraj said protest
demonstrations and meetings would be held in different parts
of the state as part of black day.
Siraj alleged that injustice was done to Madani as he was
arrested and taken to Bangalore while he was preparing to
surrender before a magistrate court in the state. The case
was a fabricated one with an objective to destory Madani and
his institution, he said.
A large number of PDP workers protested in front of the
main gate of the airport here when Madani was brought from
his camp at Anwarssery in Kollam for taking to Bangalore.
Heavy police force were deployed at the airport as part of
security arrangements at the airport.
Madani was shifted to Police jeep while on his way from
Anwarssery to Thiruvananthapuram,as Madani`s vehicle in which
he was brought from Ansarssery, broke down on the way.
Madani would be taken to Bangalore in a private airline
flight from here at 19.40 hrs.
PTI
