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Police arrested much than 2,000 nutrition repast strategy workers and the assistants arsenic they staged roadworthy roko successful 4 confederate districts connected Tuesday to item their demands.
The protesting nutritious repast strategy workers said the DMK authorities should instrumentality its 313th committedness made successful the predetermination manifesto for 2021 Assembly predetermination that the nutrition repast strategy workers would beryllium made authorities employees with timescale.
They besides said the nutrition repast strategy workers should beryllium fixed pension. While the nutrition repast strategy workers should beryllium fixed the gratuity of ₹5 lakh, the assistants should beryllium fixed ₹3 lakh.
“Pressing these demands, we’ve started the indefinite onslaught from Monday onwards. The agitation, which has wholly paralysed the serving of noon repast successful the schools and anganwadis, volition proceed and intensify further until the demands are fulfilled,” they said.
As the protestors blocked vehicular postulation connected the work roads successful Vannarpet, the postulation was thrown retired of cogwheel for much than 15 minutes. After the constabulary arrested 58 persons including 4 men, normalcy returned.
When the protestors took retired a rally from the Tamil Nadu Government Employees’ Union Office successful Thoothukudi connected Palayamkottai Road and staged roadworthy roko adjacent Ambedkar statue, the constabulary arrested 836 persons, including 17 men.
“We’ll commencement the wait-in protestation connected the Collectorate premises from January 24 onwards,” they warned.
Similar protests were organised successful Nagercoil and Tenkasi, wherever the constabulary arrested 749 persons.
The detained protestors were released later.
