AIADMK members walk out from council meeting over delay in redressal of repeatedly flagged issues

MADURAI Charging that neither developmental works were taken up nor issues repeatedly flagged were r

Charging that neither developmental works were taken up nor issues repeatedly flagged were resolved, AIADMK councillors staged a walkout from the council meeting held here on Tuesday.

AIADMK councillor (ward 64) M. Raja alleged that despite consistently raising the same, issues in his ward at every meeting, the authorities had not done anything.

“It seems like our petitions are never considered which we condemn. We demand the ward committees [regarding ward sabha] to be reconstituted with the original choice of members given by the councillors instead of the current ones,” he said.

He pointed out at the “favouritism” resolution pertaining to the promotions of Assistant Engineers and Junior Engineers, which, Mayor Indirani Ponvasanth, declared was cancelled.

When a few DMK councillors charged that the resolution was cancelled because of the Opposition party and wanted the council to pass it by majority, the Mayor clarified that it was cancelled only due to “administrative reasons.”

The meeting was co-chaired by Commissioner Simranjeet Singh Kahlon and Deputy Mayor T. Nagarajan.

Madurai South MLA M. Boominathan, who was also present, charged that the Corporation authorities must expedite works since they are half-completed across the 100 wards which overshadow the good work they carry out.