A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) booth committee member on Saturday created a ruckus at a polling booth in Madurai when a hijab-clad woman reached there to cast her vote in the ongoing Tamil Nadu Urban Local Body Polls.

Following the intervention of police, he was asked to leave the booth.

Reacting to the incident, Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin’s son and DMK MLA Udayanidhi Stalin said that the people of the state will never accept BJP’s antics.

“BJP has always been doing this, we are completely against it. People of Tamil Nadu know whom to select and whom to reject. People of Tamil Nadu will never accept it,” he said.

DMK MP Kanimozhi also slammed the BJP saying, “It’s very sad that they turn people against people in the name of religion. What a woman chooses to wear is her right. I don’t think anybody has the right to decide whether it is too much or too little.”

According to reports, the BJP booth committee member objected to a woman voter who arrived at a polling booth in Madurai while wearing a hijab and asked her to remove it.

However, DMK and AIADMK members objected to him and called the police at the booth. The police intervened and asked him to leave the booth.

Earlier in the day, chief minister MK Stalin cast his vote at a polling booth at SIET College in Teynampet, and urged people to cast their votes and exercise their democratic rights while voting for the local body elections in 38 districts of Tamil Nadu was underway.

Speaking to reporters, CM Stalin said, “Mahatma Gandhi had mentioned the importance of civic bodies in the Indian polity. The civic bodies help the government schemes to reach out to the people. People should compulsorily vote.”

The CM also said, “While casting their votes, people are complaining against certain initiatives and we assure action will be taken according to its merit.”

He also said that the DMK alliance would win all the 21 corporation elections.