Southern States - Pondicherry

Arrests vengeful: DMK

By Our Staff Reporter

Pondicherry May 21. Former Chief Minister and opposition leader in the Assembly, R V Janakiraman (DMK), today called upon the Lt. Governor and the Chief Minister to order a judicial enquiry into incidents in the Pondicherry Engineering College recently, culminating in the arrest of former minister, R Viswanathan, and his party colleagues. In a statement, Mr. Janakiraman said Pondicherry had never seen political vendetta and revengeful acts like this, and demanded that all those arrested in connection with the incidents be released and cases filed against them scrapped. A detailed probe would bring out the facts, he said.

CPI leader seeks action

The secretary of the Pondicherry State CPI committee, N. Kalainathan, has requested the Chief Secretary to initiate action against those who let out the college premises for `objectionable activities' in the garb of taking free Sanskrit coaching classes. The organising secretary of the PMK, N G Panneerselvam, demanded an enquiry into the incident. The attack was unruly and a violent act unleashed by the CPI against the participants in the Centrally-sponsored scheme to learn Sanskrit by a local organisation, he alleged.

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