Sources from Chennai have stated that despite a partial rollback of bus fares by the Tamilnadu government the main opposition in the state DMK took to streets protesting against the hike in bus fare. Accordingly DMK Working President MK Stalin on Sunday described the downward cut in bus fares announced by the Tamilnadu government as”eyewash".
Stalin told the reporters that "We have demanded full roll back of increase in bus fares and on Monday they staged agitation pressing our demand". Meanwhile DMK said that their next course of action would be based on the response from the ruling AIADMK on their agitations. Presently under pressure from the public and the opposition, the Tamilnadu government reduced the bus fares in selected services.
Meanwhile according to an announcement made by the
transport department, the fare revision would come into effect from Monday.
Further the move triggered protests from day one with the public taking to
streets, shouting slogans and besieging transport offices. It also drew a lot
of political flak from the opposition parties, who urged the state government
to rollback the fare hike.
