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The Panagudi constabulary person arrested 19 Naam Thamizhar Katchi cadres erstwhile they, defied the prohibition and took cattle to the Western Ghats for grazing connected Saturday.
The NTK had announced that the enactment cadres, led by party’s main coordinator Seeman, would instrumentality the cattle to the Western Ghats for grazing arsenic the shepherds had the close to instrumentality the cattle to immoderate unused authorities onshore and the Western Ghats for grazing. When this protestation was organised successful Theni territory recently, the constabulary had arrested Mr. Seeman and others. The NTK argues that cattle-rearers person each close to instrumentality their cattle to the hilly regions for grazing and the wood department’s prohibition connected grazing successful the Western Ghats had denied the cattle of fodder.
As the NTK had planned to organise a akin agitation adjacent Panagudi successful the territory connected Saturday, the constabulary detained 19 NTK cadres on with the cattle.
Since Mr. Seeman was astir to proceed to Panagudi from Tirunelveli to enactment successful the protest, helium was stopped astatine Tirunelveli itself.
Speaking to reporters here, Mr. Seeman said the Tamil Nadu Government which was claiming to beryllium expanding beverage accumulation and dairy products was preventing the shepherds from taking their cattle to the wood areas for grazing.
“Even arsenic the authorities is allowing blasting of lakhs of tonnes of rocks arsenic portion of quarrying successful the Western Ghats for creating seaport astatine Vizhinjam successful Kerala and mining respective crores of stream sand, the authoritative machinery is forcibly stopping the shepherds of Tamil Nadu from taking their cattle to these forests for grazing,” Mr. Seeman said.
He termed the metro obstruction transport arsenic a “failed” task arsenic the already cramped cities had been further strangled owed to operation of pillars for this project.
