According to news agency PTI on Saturday, which cited the police, at least eight individuals have been taken into custody in relation to the murder of K Armstrong, the state president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
A six-person gang killed K Armstrong on Friday by stabbing him to death close to his Chennai home. Close to his Perambur home, the gang ambushed Armstrong, a former councillor for the Chennai Corporation. Before they could escape, they seriously injured Armstrong. On the way to the hospital, he passed away.
Additional Commissioner (North) Asra Garg informed the media that ten police teams had been assembled to apprehend the suspects.
“So far, we’ve apprehended eight suspects. This is a preliminary investigation, still in its early stages. Thus, with more information and situations coming to light over time, a clearer and better picture will eventually emerge,” he stated.
In addition, Garg stated that the police believed Armstrong’s killing had “two to three suspicious motives,” but that the precise cause would only become clear after questioning the suspects.
BSP employees demonstrate
In the interim, BSP workers and members organized rallies in Chennai to protest Armstrong’s passing.
When BSP members and workers stopped the road outside Rajiv Gandhi Government Hospital, where the party’s state unit president, K Armstrong, is having his postmortem, a traffic jam was reported near Poonamallee High Road in Chennai.
As to the news agency, the demonstrators expressed their lack of trust in the Tamil Nadu administration and called for an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the issue. M.K. Stalin, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, has also been asked to resign.
Mayawati, the leader of the BSP and a former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, has denounced the horrific murder of the party’s president of Tamil Nadu and has called on the state government to “punish the guilty.”
“It is abhorrent and disgusting that K. Armstrong, the president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Tamil Nadu, was killed in such a horrific manner outside of his Chennai home. He was well-known in the state as a powerful Dalit voice and an advocate by trade. Mayawati stated in a post on X on Friday that “the state government must punish the guilty.”
Who was Armstrong?
After graduating from Venkateswara University in Tirupati, K. Armstrong began practicing law in the courts of Chennai.
In 2006, he was elected corporation councillor. The following year, he was named BSP Tamil Nadu unit president. In 2011, he ran for the Kolathur seat for the Tamil Nadu assembly, and although he lost, he had a lot of support.
Throughout his career, he has continuously supported the rights of Dalits and the impoverished. Despite the BSP’s lack of political representation in Chennai, its advocate, Amstrong, was a well-known Dalit voice.
