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Karaikal Struggle Group members observe fast

Special Correspondent

KARAIKAL: Members of the Karaikal Struggle Group (KSG) along with local people on Tuesday observed a fast here demanding that the Centre send a fact-finding team to review the decision of the Union Government taken in 1962 keeping Karaikal region under the administrative set up of the Union Territory of Puducherry.

S. Munusamy Kurumbakaram, councillor of Nedungadu Commune Panchayat and convener of Karaikal Panchayathraj Struggle Group, presided over the fast.

The KSG was formed recently seeking separate union territory status for Karaikal region.

S.P. Selvashanmugam, lawyer and convener of KSG and one of its founder members, said that the Karaikal region was getting raw deal for the past five decades from the hands of Puducherry Government and the region was not getting its due share in power as well as funds.

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