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blocked: Police prevent members of the All India Youth Federation from entering the Assembly premises as they attempted to picket it on Thursday.

PUDUCHERRY: Members of the Puducherry unit of the All India Youth Federation (AIYF) attempted to picket the State Assembly on Thursday demanding that the government provide the unemployment allowance according to their educational qualification as announced by Chief Minister N Rangasamy.

They also demanded that the Rural Employment Guarantee Act be extended to Puducherry and that vacancies in government offices be filled through the employment exchange.

The protest was part of the nationwide agitation by AIYF. In Puducherry, the AIYF cadres took out a procession from Balaji Theatre to the Assembly via Kamaraj Salai, Mission Street and Ambour Salai. But the procession, which was flagged off by CPI legislator R Viswanathan and CPI State secretary N R Kalainathan, did not reach the Assembly and was stopped by the police. About 100 cadres were arrested.

According to K. Murugan, AIYF all India general secretary, since the government has not taken action on the memoranda that they have submitted till now, they had to resort to agitations.

“We did meet Mr. Rangasamy but though he gave us assurances that our demands would be met, nothing happened. If even after this nothing happens, the State committee would meet and we may even picket all the government functions that the Chief Minister will attend.”

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