tuticorin bjp state president k annamalai on wednesday questioned the tamil nadu government not permitting installation of idols at public places during vinayaka chaturthi while it allowed tasmac liquor outlets to reopen citing declining number of covid19 cases he said bjp would strongly oppose the blanket ban on the festival that is only a week awayannamalai was interacting with reporters at the tuticorin airport before taking part in party events in tuticorin and tenkasithe government has issued an order permitting individuals to celebrate vinayaka chaturthi by installing idols an individual needs no permission from the government to celebrate the festival the government could have issued some restrictions by fixing a cap on the number of people who could take part in the public celebrations such as 100 or 200 and fixing the responsibility on the organisers for compliance he saidannamalai said that the bjp too backed the state government in reopening schools from monday as the number of covid19 cases in tamil nadu is drastically on the decline he said that it is not appropriate on the part of the state government to find examples from other states such as karnataka to issue the ban on the festival as the scenario varies from one state to another he said that the maharashtra government had permitted the celebration by issuing standard operating procedures sops to curtail spread of the pandemic tamil nadu should follow this example he said and hoped that the state government would resort to a similar model