Mayor instructs council cameraman to record DMK councillors’ antics

 

Opposition councillors had through court orders managed to overturn the two session suspension handed out to DMK councillor K. Neelakantan by Duraisamy.

 

In a funny undertone, the Mayor instructed the in-house cameraperson recording the council proceedings, to record the DMK councillors at the slightest hint of interruption from them. "Record their antics. I will have to prove it to the judge just how much they disturb the council proceedings," the Mayor noted to the amusement of the councillors.

 

When DMK floor leader Subash Chandra Bose asked the Mayor why the AIADMK council had not come up with new flyover plans, unlike during the DMK period, Duraisamy said constructing something was not as easy as it was during Subramanian's tenure.

 

"You (DMK) would dream up a bridge, call for tender the next day and issue work orders on the third. It is not so easy these days. We have to engage stakeholders, conduct environmental and social impact assessment, engage third party consultants and still there are hurdles to any project getting completed. You cannot just build a bridge for the sake of it as if you were building a house," Duraisamy said. To this, a distraught Bose said the Mayor should run the local body for administrative reasons and not for advertisement.