I intend to complete my 5-year term: Mayor

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, MAY 15. The Chennai Corporation council will carry on its listed business in the remaining months as it used to earlier, the Mayor, Mr. M. K. Stalin, said today.

The Mayor, who came to the Corporation headquarters, said people had given him a mandate for five years and he intended to fulfil that mandate. He reiterated that he would not resign in the face of the massive AIADMK win.

The council will be convened on May 22.

The functioning of the Chennai Corporation and its council will not be affected in any manner, despite the threats and intimidation from AIADMK councillors, the DMK party leader in the council, Mr. C. V. Malayan, said.

During their celebrations at the Ripon Building on Monday, AIADMK councillors had stuck posters of the Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalitha, in many places. They also allegedly removed the portraits of the Chennai Mayor, Mr. M. K. Stalin, and replaced these with that of Ms. Jayalalitha.

``We are drawing up the agenda for the next meeting. We hope to carry on with the development works for the city in the remaining four months,'' he said.

The DMK, in a statement issued here today, said the `unruly incidents unleashed by some AIADMK councillors' in the Chennai Corporation on Monday were an ominous indication of what was in store for people under the AIADMK regime.

Noting that replacing the portraits of the Mayor, Mr. Stalin, and the former Chief Minister, Mr. M. Karunanidhi, with that of the new Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalitha, was an act of political vandalism, the DMK's headquarters secretary, Mr. Viduthalai Virumbi, said such behaviour only attracted public resentment.

Occurrence of such incidents in the Corporation premises, that too on the first day of the newly-elected Government, only indicated that many such incidents were waiting to be enacted by the AIADMK partymen, he said.

Mr. Viduthalai Virumbi said the DMK cadres did not damage the portraits of Ms. Jayalalitha when the party was voted to power in 1996. The party's leaders did not encourage such behaviour either. He held the TMC-turned-Congress (I) turned-AIADMK councillor, Mr. Thiagarajan, responsible for the incidents.

Meanwhile, Opposition councillors belonging to the TMC have begun drawing up a list of ``wrong-doings during the DMK regime.'' The TMC has informally formed a group of councillors to look into ``pre-identified'' issues, one councillor said.

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