Pondy police arrest 30 for picketing govt office over Cauvery

The committee has been demanding the setting up of a Cauvery Management Board with all powers and the Supreme Court should not accept the ‘puppet’ schemes of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Cauvery water issue. The committee has also been condemning the Modi government for “cheating” Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on the Cauvery water issue.

The volunteers gathered at Jeevanandapuram and marched towards the Archive Office when police erected barricades. The volunteers shouted slogans against the Union government and were arrested.

Meanwhile, volunteers of the Socialist Unity Centre of India held a demonstration in front of the office of the District Collector demanding a ban on the chemical factory at Kalapet here, lifting of the 144 prohibitory order clamped in the area and withdrawal of cases charged against the people who protested against the factory among other things.