Protestors attempt to picket Legislator's residence
Puducherry,
Jan
31:
Tension
prevailed
at
Villianur
near
here
as
a
large
number
of
people
from
Villianur
constituency,
led
by
village
Panchayat
Presidents
and
Commune
Panchayat
Councillors,
defied
the
police
prohibitory
order
and
attempted
to
picket
the
residence
of
N
I
T
Narayanasamy,
Independent
Legislator
from
the
constituency,
forcing
the
police
to
resort
to
lathi
charge.
The Panchayat Presidents and Councillors had announced the picketing agitation demanding the resignation of Mr Narayanasamy as he had failed to release the money from his area development fund to the Panchayats for developmental activites. He also failed to distribute the application forms for several Government Welfare Schemes to the poor.
The police yesterday imposed prohibitory orders under Section 30(2) of the Police Act to prevent the Councillors from their agitation.
However, the Councillors yesterday announced that they would defy the police order and organise the agitation. Accordingly a large number of people from the constituency, including over 200 women, came to the residence of Mr Narayansamy and were prevented by the police. The people barged into the campus of his house and resorted to lathi charge.
Later,
police
arrested
over
400
people
including
women,
Panchayat
Presdidents
and
Councillors
and
brought
the
situation
under
control.
On
hearing
about
the
police
lathicharge
on
the
people,
former
Legislator
Theni
C
Jayakumar,
along
with
his
supporters,
came
to
the
premises
near
the
fire
service
station
where
the
arrested
people
were
kept
and
held
a
demonstration.
They
protested
against
police
lathicharge
and
demanded
that
they
be
arrested.
However,
police
refused
to
arrest
them
stating
that
they
had
arrested
only
those
who
defied
the
prohibitory
order
and
organised
the
agitation.
Meanwhile, about six women who joined the demonstration fainted and were taken to the Government General Hospital here.
Since there was no response from the police, they dispersed stating that they would be given a complaint to the higher ups.
UNI