Torched Vehicles And Violent Clashes Mark Protest Against Price Hike

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The opposition has called for a district wide harthal on Saturday; taxis and rickshaws to keep off roads on Monday | By Yentha

On Sep 16, 2011

Trivandrum: The DYFI march against the hike in petrol price turned violent on Friday as the police were pelted with stones and two government vehicles were torched on the first day after the price hike. In retaliation, the police carried out lathicharge against the angry demonstrators and used water cannon and tear gas grenades in an attempt to regain control of the situation.

The vehicles that were torched belonged to the Public Service Commission and the Health Department. One incident took place in General Hospital junction while the other happened at Kunnukuzhy. The tense situation prevailed for more than three hours in the city as the protesters and the police clashed in front of the Secretariat, GPO and various other central government offices

Violence erupted once the DYFI activists who marched to the GPO pelted stones at the window panes.The activists destroyed the flower pots kept in front of the building and hurled them at the police, who resorted to lathicharge and used water cannons to disperse the agitators. Then the DYFI activists blocked the arterial MG road with an effigy of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while the police personnel were attacked by SFI activists from inside the University College campus. So the police entered the college campus after hurling grenades, causing injuries to a few of the student activists. This action taken by the police has garnered immense heat from various opposition leaders. Read more...

In protest against the action taken by the police, the Left Democratic Front has called for a dawn-to-dusk harthal in the district on Saturday. The Motor Employees Union has come with the announcement that all taxis and autorickshaws would keep off  the streets on Monday to show their protest against the price hike.

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Thiruvananthapuram തിരുവനന്തപുരം (Tiruvanantapuraṁ) en malayâlam, anciennement connue sous le nom de Trivandrum est la capitale de l’État du Kerala enInde ainsi que la capitale du district de Thiruvananthapuram. Elle se situe sur la côte ouest de l’Inde, près de la pointe sud du sous-continent. Qualifiée par Gandhi de « verte cité de l’Inde », elle se caractérise par son relief vallonné de petites collines côtières et ses ruelles commerçantes pleines de vie. Avec près de 745 000 habitants d’après le recensement de 2001, c’est la ville la plus peuplée du Kerala ; l’agglomération urbaine compte quant à elle environ un million d’habitants.

~ par Alain Bertho sur 17 septembre 2011.

Publié dans दंगा, émeutes, riots