Tamil Nadu Police on Monday removed the LED screens placed in a temple in the Kanchipuram district where Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was going to watch the live telecast of Ram Lalla’s Pran Prathistha ceremony.

“This is a private temple in #Kanchipuram where Indian Finance Minister Smt.@nsitharaman is going to watch Live #Ayodhya #RamMandir #PranaPratishta!” SG Suryah, State Secretary of the Tamil Nadu unit of BJP, posted on X.

“But right now Tamil Nadu Police has entered the premises & is removing the LED screens. What a joke this is CM Mr.@mkstalin ?” he added. Meanwhile, Nirmala Sitharaman said the DMK-led Tamil Nadu government’s “repression” against those who want to arrange public viewing of the live telecast of the Ram Temple Pran Prathistha ceremony continued.

Accusing the ruling DMK of being “anti-Hindu,” she alleged that in the Kanchipuram district, the state police deployed force to prevent the live telecast in some places. “In Kanchipuram district alone, 466 LED screens were arranged for live telecast of @narendramodi in Ayodhya. In more than 400 of those places the police has either confiscated the screens or deployed force to prevent the live telecast. LED suppliers are fleeing with fear. The Anti-Hindu DMK is hitting small businesses. In Tamil, this is called “vyittilee attipptu,” Sitharaman posted on X.