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In protest: A group of councillors coming out of the Thuraiyur Municipal Council meeting on Monday.
THURAIYUR: Councillors cutting across party-lines staged a walk-out from the Thuraiyur Municipal Council meeting held on Monday, protesting what they called ‘in-ordinate delay’ in ensuring supply of the Cauvery water to the residents. Many women councillors of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) pointed out that the Municipality had failed to resolve the crisis which was turning from bad to worse every day. The Chairperson of the council, S. Bhoopathy Chelladurai, who presided over the meeting, made a futile attempt to prevent the councillors from staging any protest by assuring an expeditious action. It all started shortly after the Chairperson occupied her seat when an Independent councillor, A. Balamurugavel, wanted to know the reason for the delay in the supply of drinking water to the residents. Although tall promises wer made a few months ago, the same were yet to be kept, he said, flagging out a newspaper clipping in support of his complaint. Immediately, a number of women councillors voicing their views on the problem, said they would stage a walk-out, in protest against the ‘delay’ on the part of the municipal authorities in ensuring drinking water supply. S. Geetha Selvam (Congress); T. Pakkiam (DMK); M. Thilagam Marimuthu (DMK); S. Rajeswari Sekar (DMK); S. Koperundevi (DMK); S. Sivanandam (DMK); K. Senthamarai (DMK) and E. Selvarani (Independent) said that they were not prepared to trust any assurance now, as no promise had been fulfilled so far by the municipality. Later, addressing presspersons, a couple of councillors, R. Kannan (AIADMK) and K. Ramesh (Independent), said that two months ago, the councillors staged a walk-out stir for a while but returned to the meeting hall, with a view to taking up other business of the agenda. Since no concrete measures were taken in the past two months, they were forced to stage a walk out and abstain from the whole session.
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