Residents stage road roko demanding basic amenities in Salem

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Mayor A. Ramachandran pacifying protesters, assuring them that the roadworthy  would beryllium  re-laid astatine  Moolapillaiyar Kovil country  successful  Salem successful  Tamil Nadu.

Mayor A. Ramachandran pacifying protesters, assuring them that the roadworthy would beryllium re-laid astatine Moolapillaiyar Kovil country successful Salem successful Tamil Nadu. | Photo Credit: LAKSHMI NARAYANAN E.

Demanding basal amenities, including re-laying of the tar-topped road, residents of the Moolapillaiyar Kovil country staged a roadworthy blockade present connected Wednesday (February 18, 2026).

Led by P. Ganesan, Urban Committee Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the residents said that much than 1,000 families unrecorded successful the locality, wherever the roads are reportedly successful a dilapidated condition. They sought the contiguous laying of a tar road, proviso of due drainage facilities, and reconstruction of a damaged ground-level bridge.

Over a 100 radical gathered and sat connected the roadway, blocking vehicular question connected the Shevapet–Kandampatti Main Road. Police unit rushed to the spot and initiated talks with the protesters. However, the residents insisted that they would telephone disconnected the agitation lone if Mayor A. Ramachandran visited the tract successful idiosyncratic and assured remedial action.

Following this, the Mayor arrived astatine the spot and assured the residents that the damaged roadworthy and different indispensable amenities would beryllium addressed shortly. After receiving the assurance, the protesters dispersed peacefully. Traffic movement, which had been affected for implicit an hr owed to the blockade, was subsequently restored.

Published - February 18, 2026 06:50 p.m. IST

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