CHENNAI: A day after the government-governor face off reached a flash point, opposition to Tamil Nadu governor R N Ravi spilled on to the streets on Tuesday.DMK cadres, allies, members of Tamil attires and university student held demonstrations at numerous places across the state.

Effigies of the guv were set on fire in a couple of locations.

The Raj Bhavan-Fort St George hostility stimulated a poster war, with walls being plastered with posters for and versus Ravi, even as BJP jumped to the defence of the governor.Chief minister M K Stalin, on the other hand, instructed DMK partymen and females to avoid assaulting the guv.

At a meeting of celebration MLAs in Chennai, Stalin inquired not to expend their energy on unfavorable politics .

Remove posters attacking the guv and concentrate on taking DMKs development policies to the people, he informed MLAs.

The tone for the day was embeded in Coimbatore, among the places where BJP has a strong presence, where members of Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam (TPDK) gathered in front of the statue of social reformer E V R Periyar at Gandhipuram and raised mottos versus the governor.

The members set ablaze images and an effigy of the governor.

Even as police apprehended the opposing TPDK members, another group from the very same attire set fire to the guvs effigy.

They, too, were apprehended.

We strongly condemn the guv for leaving out the names of Ambedkar, Periyar (DK creator E V Ramasamy) and Anna (DMK creator and late chief minister C N Annadurai) in his speech in the state assembly.

He has actually disrespected the assembly and national anthem by walking out prior to the anthem was played, stated TPDK organising secretary V Aruchamy.As political attire upset versus the guv, students of different colleges from Chennai, Salem, Dharmapuri, Thiruvallur and Tiruvannamalai held slogan-shouting demonstrations in front of their organizations.

They declared Ravi was imitating a BJP leader and required that the Centre recall him.

Advocates, too, joined the protests.

Agitations versus the TN governor were held in the neighbouring Union Territory of Puducherry too.

There was a minor scuffle when cops tried to prevent the burning of an effigy of Ravi.BJP leapt to the defence of the governor, plastering posters on street walls to counter those set up by DMK.

The posters discovered on the walls of Pudukottai town hailed Ravi.

In Coimbatore, BJP cadres who heard that TPDK members were objecting in Coimbatore began gathering at the celebration office at Sidhapurthur and attempted to continue to Gandhipuram, in Coimbatore, to hold a counter-protest.

Authorities intervened and rounded them up.WatchTamizhagam vs Tamil Nadu row intensifies, DMK advocates pattern Get out Ravi versus Governor