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“Retain Pudukottai Parliamentary seat”

Staff Reporter

Committee plea to President, Prime Minister and CEC

Maintain status quo: Members of the Pudukottai Parliamentary Constituency Retrieval Committee observing a fast on Tuesday.

PUDUKOTTAI: Members of the Pudukottai Parliamentary Constituency Retrieval Committee observed a fast at three centres in the district on Tuesday, demanding status quo for the Parliamentary segment. Wearing black-badges, the members representing different service organisations, advocates associations, trading community and non-governmental organisations, urged the President, the Chief Election Commissioner and the Prime Minister to withdraw the recommendations of the Delimitation Committee.

They said that the identity of the district would be lost, if the Assembly segments of Pudukottai were apportioned to adjoining districts.

The district would be pushed to further backwardness, as none of the MPs in the peripheral districts would be able to strive for the development of the district.

In Pudukottai, the members went on a day’s fast at Chinnappa Park, led by the president of the committee, R. Xavier.

The co-ordinator of the committee, Kasi Viswanathan, hoisted a black flag on the District Chamber of Commerce campus in protest against the apportioning of the Assembly segments to the adjoining Parliamentary constituencies.

Similar stir was held at Aranthangi and Alankudi. L. Kailasanathan and M.A. Dhanabal led the fast.

They said that this was the first phase of the agitation. They sought cooperation from the members of the public for the ‘bandh’ called by the Committee on April 26.

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