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PMK MLAs cycle to the Assembly

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To highlight the importance of healthy living and create awareness on high levels of pollution in Chennai

PEDAL POWER: PMK president G.K. Mani and party MLAs on their way to the Secretariat in Chennai on Thursday. — Photo: V. Ganesan

CHENNAI: Pattali Makkal Katchi MLAs will come to the Assembly on bicycle, from the MLA hostel, for the entire budget session.

Arriving a little ahead of the start of the session on Thursday morning, PMK president and party's leader in the House, G.K. Mani, said the objective was to drive home the importance of healthy living and create awareness on the high levels of pollution in Chennai.

"Token gesture"

Mr. Mani said his party leadership had taken up several environmental issues in the past and looked at this "token gesture" as yet another means of increasing awareness on both these issues.

To stay fit

More people were turning obese and cycling was one way to stay fit. It would also decrease the number of vehicles on road and pollution.

The PMK leader, who led his MLAs from the hostel, said the members would cycle each morning, regardless of the soaring mercury levels.

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