When EPS, OPS stood taller than Jaya
Road dug up in 500 locations
Be it DMK or AIADMK, they have one thing in common. When in power, they bend rules and inconvenience the public.
On Tuesday, when Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami and his deputy O. Panneerselvam were in the city enroute to Alanganallur to inaugurate the jallikattu, a stretch between Circuit House on Alagarkoil Road and Oomachikulam Road turned chaotic in the morning.
While the traffic police were strict in disciplining the daily road users, they remained mute spectators when vehicles displaying party flags were driven in a rash and negligent manner. By stopping the vehicles of ordinary commuters, much ahead of the VVIPs’ convoy leaving the Circuit House, people were put to untold hardships.
As the VVIP vehicles approached the New Natham Road intersection, jubilant cadre, who had put up two big cutouts of the CM and Deputy CM in front of the camp offices of the SP and the DCP (Law and Order), forcefully stopped them to enable the tow leaders have a glimpse of their cutouts.
Although baffled by the height of the cutouts, the duo lauded the efforts of the cadre, an MLA who was part of the VVIP convoy told The Hindu .
Asked about the inconvenience caused to road users, the MLA, however, responded that it was wrong to say so. “It is a form of expressing our joy when our party high command visits the city. Even when the DMK was in power, the cadre put up cutouts of M.K. Alagiri on his birthday,” the MLA recalled.
A former CPI(M) MLA said both EPS and OPS stood taller in the cutouts than their leader Jayalalithaa.
A Corporation engineer said the AIADMK had not sought permission for putting up the cutouts. They dug up holes in 500 locations starting from Paravai to New Natham Road, via Vilangudi, Fatima College, Sellur, Goripalayam, Tallakulam and Narayanapuram. The medians were used to display party flags, all in violation of rules.
When contacted, Minister for Cooperation Sellur K. Raju said only the media was interested in blowing it out of proportion.
On Tuesday, when Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami and his deputy O. Panneerselvam were in the city enroute to Alanganallur to inaugurate the jallikattu, a stretch between Circuit House on Alagarkoil Road and Oomachikulam Road turned chaotic in the morning.
While the traffic police were strict in disciplining the daily road users, they remained mute spectators when vehicles displaying party flags were driven in a rash and negligent manner. By stopping the vehicles of ordinary commuters, much ahead of the VVIPs’ convoy leaving the Circuit House, people were put to untold hardships.
As the VVIP vehicles approached the New Natham Road intersection, jubilant cadre, who had put up two big cutouts of the CM and Deputy CM in front of the camp offices of the SP and the DCP (Law and Order), forcefully stopped them to enable the tow leaders have a glimpse of their cutouts.
Although baffled by the height of the cutouts, the duo lauded the efforts of the cadre, an MLA who was part of the VVIP convoy told The Hindu .
Asked about the inconvenience caused to road users, the MLA, however, responded that it was wrong to say so. “It is a form of expressing our joy when our party high command visits the city. Even when the DMK was in power, the cadre put up cutouts of M.K. Alagiri on his birthday,” the MLA recalled.
A former CPI(M) MLA said both EPS and OPS stood taller in the cutouts than their leader Jayalalithaa.
A Corporation engineer said the AIADMK had not sought permission for putting up the cutouts. They dug up holes in 500 locations starting from Paravai to New Natham Road, via Vilangudi, Fatima College, Sellur, Goripalayam, Tallakulam and Narayanapuram. The medians were used to display party flags, all in violation of rules.
When contacted, Minister for Cooperation Sellur K. Raju said only the media was interested in blowing it out of proportion.
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