Around 100 Congress workers were taken into custody here today for staging a protest against Lt Governor Kiran Bedi, condemning what they called her recent bid to "dislocate" the free rice scheme in rural areas.
The protesters raised slogans 'go back' against Bedi while she was on her way to Aayi Pond to plant saplings to 'conserve' water bodies for posterity and make the Union Territory 'water-rich.'
Speaking to newsmen, Arumugham said the imposition of a 'condition' by Bedi that villages not maintained properly would not get the benefit of free rice scheme was "utterly unwholesome and objectionable."
Party leaders condemned Bedi's recent announcement that implementation of the scheme in rural areas was subject to the maintenance of hamlets and keeping them 'open defecation free and garbage free.'
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