Anbil Mahesh's supporters walk out of Trichy corpn council meet
A total of 27 councillors, mostly supporters of school education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, who is the Trichy DMK south district secretary, walked out stating that despite the minister's intervention, the local body did not stop the work. However, councillors largely from Trichy central district unit, considered as loyalists of municipal administration minister K N Nehru, stayed back.
Work is on for the plant, proposed to convert 35 tonne of chicken waste a day into pellets for being used as feed in fish farms.
The local body allocated 8,000 square feet inside the dump yard to a private firm to develop the plant at a monthly rent of Rs 56,000. However, raising apprehensions of bad odour emanating from it, Thiruverumbur residents approached local MLA Anbil Mahesh to stop the work. "Despite our minister's (Anbil Mahesh) appeal, as the work on the poultry waste recycling unit is progressing much against public interest, we decide not to participate in the meeting," DMK councillor and zone III chairman M Mathivanan said before leading the walkout.
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Around 25 councillors including deputy mayor G Dhivya and a few Congress councillors including S Sujatha, all representing wards in Thiruverumbur and Trichy East assembly segments, left the hall ignoring mayor Mu Anbalagan's appeal. Councillors P Govindarajan (Congress) and S Suresh (CPM) too joined them. Councillors of wards far away from the dump yard also boycotted it. Claiming there was no factional feud in the party, DMK councillors who walked out said they had only democratically conveyed their displeasure for public welfare.
"Work on the recycling plant was already stopped on the instructions of our minister (K N Nehru). So far, 30 out of 48 acres of Ariyamangalam dump yard has been retrieved, and the biomining process will retrieve remaining dump yard soon" mayor Mu Anbalagan said.
Inset - Women councillors protest
Ahead of the walkout, DMK councillors R Malarvizhi (ward 64) and V Leela (ward 49) had heated arguments with the mayor over Malarvizhi's house in KK Nagar being vandalised by a contractor last week. The attack was a fallout of the councillor questioning lapses in the stormwater drain construction taken up by the contractor. The women condemned the attack and complained about an 'insecure environment even for councillors.
' "The contractor will be blacklisted," the mayor told them.
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