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Kovilpatti AIADMK MLA meet Chief M Karunanidhi
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Departments, Kovilpatti, Politics, government, meeting, programme on February 13th, 2010
It’s once again time for many eyebrows in Tamilnadu’s political circles to remain raised. For, exactly a week after the sitting Kovilpatti MLA Radhakrishan, belonging to the AIADMK, met Chief M Karunanidhi, his Jayamkondam counterpart K Rajendran repeated the act today.
The AIADMK legislator, who is also the Jayamkondam union secretary of ‘Amma Peravai’, one of the important wings of the main opposition party, called on Karunandhi today and presented him a ‘memorandum to take steps to improve infrastructure in his constituency’.
And he also claimed that he had met the Chief Minister as his ‘conscience pricked’ him since he (Radhakrishnan) was unable to do anything for the welfare of his constituency ever since he became an MLA four years ago.
‘I don’t want to be a puppet legislator. I want to do some good to the people who had elected me. Hence I had met the Chief Minister requesting him to take immediate steps to improve facilities in my constituency. I am hopeful that good things will happen soon,’ he told reporters, after meeting Karunanidhi.
Hitting out at his party supremo J Jayalalithaa, Rajendran said, ‘Only Rs 775 was given per tonne of sugarcane when she was in rule. But the Chief Minister has now increased it to Rs 1,550, which is higher than the price fixed by the Central government. This is among the many good steps being taken by the present regime for the welfare of the people. But they (AIADMK leadership) have announced an agitation for sugarcane farmers to cheat the people.’
Union Minister for Information Technology and Communications A Raja and Perambalur district DMK secretary S S Sivasankar were present when Rajendran met Karunanidhi. The Chief Minister has assured Rajendran that the ‘needful’ will be done for the growth of his constituency, said a press release.
On Friday last, Kovilpatti MLA Radhakrishan called on Karunanidhi in Chennai after he met Union Minister and DMK organising secretary (south) M K Alagiri in Madurai.
He too presented a memorandum to ‘improve basic infrastructure in his constituency’. Speaking to reporters, Radhakrishnan said he was ready to face the consequences, if his party leadership wanted to take action against him for meeting a leader of their archrival organisation. And he was removed on the same day from the post of the secretary of Jayalalithaa Peravai.
mystery fever is silently afflicting the people across the swine flu
Posted by ganesh in Death, Kovilpatti, Public, disease, government, illegal, programme, ramanathapuram on December 26th, 2009
At a time when the medical fraternity is battling swine flu, a mystery fever is silently afflicting the people across the State.Two persons, one of them a police constable, have died of the fever in two villages near Mudukulathur in Ramnathapuram district recently.
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Though there has been no exact cause for the death, the health officials have said the two victims had symptoms of high fever.‘My wife has been ill for a week and got admitted to a hospital with symptoms like those of chikungunya’, Krishna, a farmer from Sattur in Virudhunagar district, said.
Strangely, the doctor attending on her said that he was not in a position to disclose the name of the fever owing to some ‘internal’ pressure exerted by the officials concerned, Krishna added. Some complained that chikungunya has come back.
Another incident from the outskirts of Chennai showed how grave the problem is. A two-and-a-half year old boy Dhaksinamurthy in Perunkalathur died of the mysterious fever recently. Residents feel that perennial sewage overflow in their locality had led to mosquitoes breeding which in turn has caused the spread of the disease.
‘After our repeated demands went unheeded, residents of Velu Nagar at Perunkalathur proposed to constitute ‘Velu Nagar Residents Association’ shortly to attend to their problems,’ said Mohammed Dastagir.
According to a media report, Principal Secretary and director of the Indian System of Medicine and Homeopathy G A Rajkumar said siddha drugs could be used to treat chikungunya without side-effects.
‘The Nilavembu Kudineer Chooranam,’ prepared with nine ingredients and ‘Amukkara Chooranam,’ made with five ingredients are most effective’, he added. Dr Rajkumar further underlined the need for creating awareness among the masses of the efficacy of Siddha drugs in healing the disease.
When contacted, Health Secretary V K Subburaj said it was not a mysterious fever but a viral fever caused by seasonal change and mosquitoes. ‘We are taking all steps to take stock of the situation’, he said.
When asked about some deaths reported because of the mysterious fever, he said that it was not owing to the viral fever alone. ‘But the persons who died had some other complications earlier which might have turned out to be fatal’
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