The police resorted to mild lathi charge to disperse persons who blocked the main road at Kannivadi, condemning the “lethargy” of officials in linking Aadhaar details with voter identity cards, here on Wednesday.
The demonstrators alleged that the linking was not done for over 2,000 voters in Reddiyarchatram union.
Officials promised to take photos for Aadhaar card on May 25 but they advised the people to come the next day, they said.
On Tuesday, persons who came for taking photos to the centre at Kannivadi were asked to go home as they did not have sufficient forms to fill details, they alleged.
The agitators alleged that there was no response to repeated requests made to the Tahsildar and Collector in this regard.
The police assured them that they would make arrangement for taking photos on Wednesday. But they too did not make any arrangement.
Hence, the people blocked the main road.
To disperse the crowd, the police resorted to mild lathi charge and arrested seven CPI (M) members – K.S. Sakthivel, Raj Kumar, Chandru, S. Radhakrishnan, Murthy, Kumar and Suresh – and TMMK member Jaffar.
The district unit of CPI (M) condemned the lathi charge and demanded deployment of adequate staff for taking photos for Aadhaar card.
CPI (M) condemned the lathi charge
and demanded deployment of adequate staff for taking photos for Aadhaar card