Tamil Nadu: AIADMK MLAs respond to CM MK Stalin’s call, raise issues

COIMBATORE: AIADMK MLAs from the district were quick to respond to chief minister M K Stalin’s call to submit top 10 issues in their constituencies.
Led by former municipal administration minister S P Velumani, all the nine AIADMK MLAs from the district met collector G S Sameeran on Tuesday and submitted their demands.
“The state government should not neglect the district. It should fulfil all the demands pertaining to our assembly constituencies,” Velumani told reporters after meeting the collector.
During his recent visit to the city 10 days ago, Stalin had urged the MLAs belonging to the opposition parties as well to submit the list of issues pertaining to their constituencies, with a promise that the state government would address the same without any discrimination.
Most of the demands pertained to the projects announced during the AIADMK regime. Velumani said the DMK government had put their projects on the back burner. “Our topmost demand is to relay all the damaged roads. The entire network of roads in the city is in a bad shape. Roads dug up for underground drainage have not been relaid. Firstly, the government should relay the roads.”
He said 500 road projects that the AIADMK government had chalked out were shelved by the DMK government. There are reports of road mishaps and several people suffering injuries because of bad roads, he said.
The former local administration minister said the DMK government had not taken forward any development projects initiated by the AIADMK regime. “Airport expansion, Selvapuram-Thondamuthur road expansion, laying of western bypass road and Vellalore integrated bus stand have all been neglected.”
On the proposal to shift Vellalore integrated bus stand, Velumani said the project was put on hold because of ulterior motives. “Whatever the motive is, the government should not shelve the project.”
Velumani said the AIADMK government was planning to shift the truck depot to Vellalore, which would have minimized traffic congestion within the city. “This project has also been put on the back burner.”