India, Aug. 4 -- In the evening, Udhayanidhi was taken to the Sengipatti police station after huge crowds gathered in Thanjavur - roughly 350km from state capital Chennai, he was quizzed for more than an hour.

At around 8pm, he was released on station bail, and returned to Chennai around midnight.

"They arrested me for nothing. I have not said anything wrong. I have not said anything wrong against anybody," he said. The 49-year-old leader stood atop a vehicle and greeted supporters late into the evening at Sengipatti in a show of strength by the DMK.

"With 3,000 police personnel, they took us by road from Chennai to Thanjavur like a terrorist," he said, dismissing the allegation that he made offensive comments.

"They cut, copied, and ...