Karthikeya Sivasenapathy speaking to reporters. COIMBATORE: DMK candidate in Thondamuthur assembly constituency Karthikeya Sivasenapathy on Tuesday alleged that he was assaulted by AIADMK men outside a polling in Selvapuram. Tension gripped outside the polling station after the members of the two parties clashed with each other. Sivasenapathy visited a polling station at the government primary school in Selvapuram in the morning to check polling. While he was returning, Sivasenapathy was surrounded by AIADMK and BJP cadres. They raised slogans against him. DMK cadre rescued Sivasenapathy from the crowd. A clash erupted between the members of the AIADMK and the DMK. The police intervened and pacified them.