Hundreds of workers of mid-may meals Scheme Workers Union, affiliated to the CITU, were taken into custody when they tried to organise ‘Chalo Vijayawada’ demanding solution to their demands.
The women, who cook food in schools, were resenting privatisation of mid-day meals scheme, and called for a protest here on Monday.
Police mobilised forces at the railway station and took them into preventive custody, when they landed in Vijayawada from all over the State. They were shifted to different police stations.
Tension prevailed at the railway station when police tried to take them into custody and shift the women to the police stations. They entered into an argument with the police.
The protesters raised slogans and blamed the government for trying to suppress their voice with force. They demanded that the government stop privatisation of the mid-day meals scheme.