They marched peacefully from the inland towns of Curepipe, Vacoas, Quatre-Bornes, Beau Bassin-Rose Hill and other parts of the island in order to head towards the capital city of Port Louis.
At the now-historic bridge of Grand River North West (GRNW) near La Tour Koenig, local police prevented the crowd from progressing towards the capital city of Port Louis.
Later that day, at New Eton College in Rose Hill, around fifty students were arrested after an intervention by the Police Riot Unit which attempted to disperse a gathering there.
To maintain a majority of seats in Parliament, the leader of Labour Party struck a new deal with its rival PMSD which resulted in Labour-CAM-PMSD coalition ruling the country.
Meanwhile the new party Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM) had gained popularity, even electing its first ever candidate Dev Virahsawmy to Parliament through the September 1970 by-elections at Constituency No.5.
[12] This followed a previous attempt[13] to assassinate MMM leader Paul Berenger during which his assistant Fareed Muttur died in suspicious circumstances after a car accident on 1 October 1971.
[14][15] Another example of political violence was the attack on student activist and MMM sympathiser Raja Bhadain who was stabbed by a PMSD thug[16] wielding scissors at a public gathering.