CPI cadres stage demo in Puducherry

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Puducherry, Jan 9 (UNI) Cadres of CPI staged a demonstration in front of the Slum Clearence Board office at Mullainagar here today.

Led by party state secretary Na Ra Kalainathan and national council member R Viswanathan, the agitation was to protest the delay in the construction of multi-storied building to shelter 1,136 poor families at Bhoomiyanpet for which the foundation stone was laid long ago and also construction of 64 houses at Mottathoppu.

They also protested the failure of the government to provide Rs one lakh under the Kamaraj housing scheme to the poor.

Earlier, the cadres took out a procession from the Subbiah statue to the venue of the stir.

The AITUC-affiliated Municipality and Commune Panchayat Workers Union joint action committee also observed a fast in front of the legislative assembly, demanding that the garbage cleaning works should not be privatised, removal of pay anomalies among the group "D" staffs, among other things.

UNI

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