The Minister also charged that illegal road works are also being carried out, inconveniencing daily commuters and patients visiting Chennai General Hospital and Chennai Multispecialty Hospital
Rich tributes were paid to Jayalalithaa by AIADMK leaders in Chennai with the top party leader and former Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami paying floral tributes to a portrait of the late leader at his residence
While speaking to reporters in Omalur, Salem district, Palaniswami alleged that the Chief Minister was rattled by the AIADMK as it had severed ties with the BJP.
It may be noted that 14 people died in the firecracker unit explosion at Attibele on the outskirts of Bengaluru and close to Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border.
Citing the state-specific stand taken on the Cauvery issue by the Congress and BJP in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Palaniswami said this is the politics of national parties. The voice of Tamil Nadu people would echo in the Parliament and only to safeguard the rights of the people of the state, his party decided to separately fight the LS polls, he told reporters here.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday alleged that an anti-BJP wave has started in the whole nation after AIADMK snapped its ties with the ruling party at the Centre.
The AIADMK resolution cited Annamalai as the reason for breaking ties, saying that he has intentionally speaking ill against senior AIADMK leaders as also former Chief Ministers, CN Annadurai and Dr J Jayalalithaa