The Hindu : Malayan refutes Thiagarajan charge

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Tuesday, Nov 12, 2002

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Malayan refutes Thiagarajan charge

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI NOV. 11. The DMK floor leader in Chennai Corporation, C.V.Malayan, today refuted the charge made by the Deputy Mayor, `Karate' R.Thiagarajan, recently that the former Mayor, M.K.Stalin, had left more than 1,000 files unsigned at the time of leaving office.

In a statement here, Mr.Malayan said even on the last day of discharging duties as the Mayor, Mr. Stalin cleared all pending files. In fact, after the removal of financial powers of the Mayor through an amendment to the Madras City Municipal Corporation Act, the question of pending files did not arise at all.

Cong relief measure

The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee will distribute one lakh bread loaves to the rain-affected areas on November 14 coinciding with the Children's Day celebrations.

In a statement today, the Congress MLA, S.G. Vinayakamoorthi, who is also the party's flood relief committee chairman, said the party had adopted November 14 as `public grievance alleviation day' in the wake of havoc caused by rain in the city and its suburbs.

In another statement, the MDMK has appealed to the Government to convene an emergency meeting of all MPs, MLAs and government officials of Chennai region to discuss flood relief work. The party's presidium chairman, L.Ganesan, made the plea.

The MDMK statement pointed out the lack of platforms in the city, and demanded a comprehensive plan to set right the traffic problems.

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