Detention of conservancy workers condemned

The Thamizh Desiya Periyakkam has condemned the Tamil Nadu police for ‘using force’ to quell the democratic protest of the conservancy workers of the Greater Chennai Corporation on Wednesday night.

In a statement of August 14, TDP general secretary K. Venkatraman termed the police action against the participants of the “peaceful demonstration” and subsequent arrests citing an High Court Order as an act of curbing the democratic rights of the people.

The DMK government, which often claims that it “opposes the BJP’s privatisation,” has done the same at the GCC, where it has handed over the civic body’s responsibility for garbage disposal to an Andhra Pradesh-based private company through a ₹2,700 crore tender, he said.