More than 300 Democratic Youth Federation of India members were arrested after they staged a road blockade agitation in Thiruppur to protest against the rising fuel prices, poor infrastructure at government-run hospitals and delays in issuance of ration cards, among other issues.
DYFI district secretary R. Vadivel said that the periodic increases in the fuel prices over the last few months had plunged those in the lower economic segments of the society into a state of despair. On the issuance of ration cards, he alleged that about 10,000 people from the city and its suburbs were yet to receive the cards despite applying for the same many months ago. The members came down heavily on the lack of hygiene and inadequate infrastructure at the headquarters hospital.The DYFI called upon the State Government to procure motors from micro and small industries under the scheme to provide these free of cost to farmers.
Similar agitations were carried out by DYFI cadres across the state.
In Nagercol,activists held a demonstration in front of collectorate. DYFI district president Pusbadhas let the agitation. Former member of Lok Sabha A.V. Bellarmine, district secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Murugesn and others spoke.
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