Traffic paralysed on GST Road, PMK cadres detained
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Traffic on GST Road within the southern suburbs of Chennai was paralysed for greater than two hours on Tuesday morning after cadres of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) went on a protest close to Perungulathur when police prevented from getting into the town for a political demonstration.
The Ananthapuri Express coming from Thiruvananthapuram was stoned and halted for greater than 10 minutes between Vandalur and Tambaram.
However, the protesters had been cleared by the Chengalpet police after greater than two hours and vehicular motion was restored.
Pmk cadres staging a highway roko at GST Road in Tambaram on Tuesday.
| Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj
A senior officer of Chengalpet district mentioned a lot of protesters have been taken in buses and stored in a group corridor.
The cadres had been headed to the town to take part in an illustration underneath the management of the celebration’s youth wing chief Anbumani Ramadoss to press for 20% reservation for Vanniyars in authorities jobs and better training.
The cadres numbering over 600 had been stopped by the Chengalpet police close to Vandalur. Following this they blocked highway visitors. With the railway tracks being positioned adjoining to the GST Road in addition they went on protest blocking railway visitors.
A senior official of Southern Railway mentioned the protesters pelted stones on the Ananthapuri Express. The driver stopped the practice to forestall additional injury to the practice and accidents to passengers, sources mentioned. Window panes of the locomotive was broken within the stone pelting.
The police cleared the protesters from the observe after which the practice proceeded in direction of Chennai Egmore.
A senior officer of Chengalpet district police mentioned highway visitors was fully hit between Vandalur and Perungalathur with a lot of protesters continuing in personal autos stopped close to Vandalur. Senior law enforcement officials after holding talks with the protesters eliminated them from the GST Road to ease visitors congestion.
Police didn’t grant permission for the PMK demonstration as a part of the COVID-19 security protocol.
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