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Committee begins campaign

Staff Reporter

To restore Pudukottai Parliamentary constituency

FOR A CAUSE: Members of the Pudukottai Parliamentary Constituency Retrieval Committee mobilising public support at Aranthangi.

ARANTHANGI: The Pudukottai Parliamentary Constituency Retrieval Committee, an umbrella organisation of representatives of different service organisations, literary associations and institutions, recently formed to mobilise the support of the members of the public to restore the Parliamentary constituency status for the district, launched its campaign here recently.

The Committee, which has been organising the campaign by despatching the post-cards to the President of India, pleading for ‘status quo’ for the Parliamentary segment, has been obtaining the signatures from the voters in each post-card.

Addressing the members of the public, the president of Aranthangi unit of the committee, L. Kailasanathan said that the Parliamentary constituency would lose its historical identity, as the Assembly constituencies had been apportioned to the Parliamentary constituency of Ramanathapuram, Sivagangai, Tiruchi and Karur as per the recommendations of the Delimitation Committee.

He said that the merger of the Aranthangi Assembly constituency with the Parliamentary segment of Ramanathapuram would deprive the people of getting their due democratic benefits.

The office-bearers of the unit, K.V.S. Chinnathambi and R. Krishnasamy said that the committee has been receiving an overwhelming response to the campaign from the members of the public.

A special meeting of the committee will be held at the campus of the Chamber of Commerce in Pudukottai at 6 p.m. when its office-bearers from different parts of the district would evolve a strategy for future course of action, according to the Committee sources.

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