DMK urged to take up hydrocarbon issue in TN Assembly

Chennai: Youths of Neduvasal in Pudukottai district today called on DMK working president M K Stalin here and urged him to take steps for getting a resolution passed against the Hydrocarbon project in Tamil Nadu Assembly.

The youths, representing the people of Neduvasal and other neighbouring villages, handed over a memorandum to Stalin, urging his party to take up the issue in Assembly.

Protests that lasted for 22 days was called off "temporarily," after Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan and State Health Minister C Vijaya Baskar appealed to them to give up their agitations.

Villagers had already given a petition to Vijaya Baskar urging the State government to adopt a resolution in the Assembly against the project.