Tamil Nadu Congress Committee Treasurer Ruby Manoharan was chased away by fellow party cadres as he came to garland the statue of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Kamaraj near Nanguneri yesterday.
‘Ruby’ Manoharan is a real estate giant and was recently appointed as the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee Treasurer by the party high command. He was also fielded as the Congress candidate for Nanguneri by-elections after the seat fell vacant following the resignation of late Congress leader Vasanth Kumar who became an MP in 2019. The DMK which wanted to contest in the Nanguneri seat gave in after Congress national high command pressured to field Ruby Manoharan. However, Manoharan faced a massive defeat at the hands of AIADMK candidate V. Narayanan.
Back then, the Congress cadres of the region were angry about fielding an outside instead of a local leader. With Manoharan, eyeing to contest from Nanguneri for the 2021 Assembly elections, local party cadres have become even more enraged.
In light of this, Manoharan who had visited Parappadi near Nanguneri yesterday to garland the statue of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Kamaraj was gheraoed and chased away by Congress cadres. The two factions of the Congress engaged in a brawl and police had to be called to ease the situation. Traffic on Nanguneri Thissayanvilai Road was disrupted for more than an hour by Congress vehicles parked in the area. Following this, Manoharan placed the garland on the grill and went away from the spot.