Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 14: Pro LDF youth and students organisations today took out marches in the district head quarters across the state demanding legislation or ordinance for making the fees for merit quota students in self financing professional colleges on par with the governemnt colleges. Hundreds of youths and students participated in the march to the secretariat here and in other district head quarters of the state, police said adding no untoward incident was reported in connection with the agitation.
Opposition leader V S Achuthanandan inaugurated the march before the secretariat here and former chief minister and CPI leader P K Vasudevan Nair inaugurated the march at Kochi.
Achuthanandan wanted the government to enact a law immediately and also asked the government to convene a special session of the assembly for the purpose.
Bureau Report