
Discontent among Kumbakonam residents
The Hindu
Their plea to make it as district headquarters remains neglected for quite a long time
A strong undercurrent of voter discontent is discernible among Kumbakonam residents over the government’s failure to cede the demand for a new district with the town as its headquarters. The resentment has grown stronger after Chief Minister Edappadi K.Palaniswami chose to ignore the demand during his recent campaign in the delta region while promising creation of new districts such as Palani elsewhere. With Kumbakonam being a major commercial hub in the delta region, the demand for creation of a new district had grown popular over the past two decades though it has been aired sporadically ever since Nagapattinam district was carved out of the then composite Thanjavur district in 1991.
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