ASHA workers march to Cliff House

A conception of ASHA workers who person been staging an agitation for 8 months seeking an summation successful their remuneration and status benefits ramped up their protestation by taking retired a march to Cliff House, the Chief Minister’s authoritative residence, successful the State superior connected Wednesday.

The ASHAs, nether the umbrella of the Kerala ASHA Health Workers’ Association (KAHWA), decided to organise a protestation time crossed the State connected Thursday successful protestation against the enactment against ASHAs. They volition deterioration achromatic covering and badges and question achromatic flags during the protest.

Earlier successful the day, the ASHAs who had been staging a protestation successful beforehand of the Secretariat for 255 days marched from PMG Junction to the Cliff House. The constabulary had enactment up barricades to artifact them. The constabulary besides utilized h2o cannons aggregate times connected the protesters, but it failed to deter them. The protesters, holding placards and shouting slogans, climbed the barricades, starring to a standoff. The protesters who went implicit the barricades were taken into custody by the police.

The ASHA workers alleged that their leaders M.A. Bindu and S. Mini were forcibly taken into custody.

The constabulary released the ASHA workers and assured them that an accidental to conscionable with the Chief Minister would beryllium arranged, Ms. Mini said.

Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan called the constabulary enactment anti-democratic.

In a connection connected Wednesday, Mr. Satheesan said a protestation seeking a hike successful wages was not the archetypal successful the State. However, the authorities was dealing with them arsenic if they were foes. The constabulary utilized h2o cannons connected the women. There were allegations that the covering of immoderate women was torn by the police. The apprehension of UDF caput C.P. John who had reached the spot to explicit solidarity with the protesters could not beryllium defended.