Tamil Nadu Assembly polls: Residents to boycott voting in protest over delay in building service lanes

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The Trichy-Palpannai-Thuvakudi Service Road Meetpu Kootamaippu has said that residents surviving successful colonies on the metropolis agelong of Tiruchi-Thanjavur National Highway would boycott the Assembly election arsenic a people of protestation implicit the “continued neglect” of their request for gathering work lanes betwixt Palpannai and Thavakudi on the Highway.

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In a connection sent to the territory Election Officer and Collector V. Saravanan, besides released to the media, the federation’s president S. Subramanian and wide caput K. Rajendran said they person taken the determination successful consultation with different residents payment associations.

“The work roads should person been built on with the [four-laning of] Tiruchi-Thanjavur National Highway successful 2006-09 arsenic per the archetypal plan. But they were not built owed to the interference of definite selfish traders and owed to this innumerable accidents and deaths proceed to hap connected the stretch,” the federation said.

“Over the past 16 years, governmental parties person been holding retired specified promises connected gathering work lanes during elections but neglect the contented aft coming to power, thereby doing injustice to the people,” the federation charged.

Hence, they person been forced to edifice to the “negative action,” though they wanted to guarantee cent per cent polling successful elections, the federation regretted.

Down the years, residents federation person resorted to a bid of protests connected the issue. The contented had gained immoderate governmental traction aft a radical of CPI cadre went connected a fast. VCK president Thol. Thirumavalavan had expressed solidarity with the protesting CPI cadre.

Following this, the territory medication had announced that the onshore acquisition process for the task would beryllium completed soon and enactment connected forming the work roads would beryllium taken up.

Published - April 04, 2026 01:10 p.m. IST

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