Mayor calls for removal of DMK symbols in Coimbatore
Coimbatore Corporation to remove all the DMK party symbols from public places.
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2013-11-17 12:15 GMT
Coimbatore: Mayor S M Velusamy has steered a resolution in the Coimbatore Corporation to remove all the DMK party symbols (rising sun) that adorn compound walls and hand railings at public places erected during the party’s regime.
At an emergency council meeting called for by the Corporation, councilor S Manimegalai of ward 23 raised the issue and alleged that DMK during World Tamil Conference had erected steel hand-railings at VOC park with their party symbol, Rising Sun. She also noted that the compound wall of the Corporation water tank at Gandhi Park has nearly 60 Rising Sun symbols built on it.
She also alleged that the compound wall of Bharathiar University campus had also been constructed with the DMK party symbols all over.
When asked about the money that would go into removing the compound walls and redoing them, she said that the Mayor had instructed that the gaps after removing the Rising Sun images could be plugged so that the structure would not resemble the party symbol.
DMK councillor Meena Logu later said that setting aside the question as to whether it is right or wrong to use the public properties as a platform to publicise party symbols, the Mayor’s move would cause waste of taxpayers’ money.