Date:29/11/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/11/29/stories/2008112955110300.htm

Tamil Nadu

Novel protest by DYFI members

SIVAKASI: Members of the Democratic Youth Federation of India staged a novel protest of “begging” to highlight the poor state of a stretch of State highways road, on Friday. Over 100 members went around the town “begging”, the federation Sivakasi town secretary, P. Balasubramanian said. The 1.5 km. of road from the bypass junction to Naranapuram was unmotorable, he said.