Press Trust Of India
Chennai/Coimbatore: A political row erupted in Tamil Nadu Wednesday over Governor Banwarilal Purohit meeting government officials in Coimbatore as DMK and other opposition parties claimed that it amounted to interference in the state’s rights.
Amid the strong reactions a day after the meeting, Purohit Wednesday inspected one of the main bus stands in Coimbatore, swept a bus bay and removed garbage as part of a cleanliness drive under the Centre’s ‘Swachh Bharat’ initiative.
The governor, who was accompanied by state Municipal Administration Minister SP Velumani and district officials, said he would visit the district as well as the other districts every year and expressed hope that the city would remain clean.
DMK working president MK Stalin, leaders of the Congress, CPI(M), CPI, PMK and even deposed AIADMK deputy chief TTV Dhinakaran flayed the governor for holding the meeting with the top district officials of Coimbatore.
Stalin, who is also the Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, alleged that this was an attempt by the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre and the governor to “take away the authority vested by the people” in an elected government.
