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Developmentsof the day

� Guv says similar visits will happen in all districts� Opposition parties against the move� Ministers assure nothing to worry� BJP leaders say nothing wrong

PuroHIT packs a punch� TN Governor says he will inspect all districts � Oppn cry foul � Ministers, BJP justify Guv action

NT BureauChennai / Coimbatore, Nov 15:

In an apparent message that his on-going actions in Coimbatore are just a beginning, Governor Banwarilal Puro-hit today said he will carry out similar inspections in all districts of the State.

A day after he chaired a review meeting with district offi cials, Puro-hit, along with Minister for Municipal Administration S P Velumani, today visited the solid waste management plant installed in an residential society in the industrial city.

Post the visit, he held discussions with NGOs and residents welfare associations working on solid waste management.

During the meeting, he lauded the efforts of the city in Swachch Bharath Mission and congratulated the offi cials of the Coimbatore Corporation and the district administration for their initiatives.

Earlier in the day, he inspected the Gandhipuram bus stand and took part in a cleaning drive there as part of the Swachch Bharath intitiative.

He swept the bus bays and re-moved the waste from there. He also

inspected e-toilets in the bus stand. ‘I have been carrying out inspections

from yesterday. A few are trying to cre-ate controversies from my visit. Only when I visit the places I will know about the works that are being carried out and give feedback to the government. Till now I thought that Maharashtra was better in cleanliness, but now I have changed my mind as Tamilnadu is far better,’ he added.

It may be noted that Purohit yester-day evening held a meeting with the top offi cials of the Coimbatore district, including Collector T N Hariharan and Corporation Commissioner K Vijay-akarthikeyan, triggering a political outcry from Opposition leaders who charged that the meeting was an as-sault on the State’s autonomy.

Purohit had come to Coimbatore to attend the convocation ceremony at the Bharathiar University in his capac-ity as its Chancellor.

Stalin, TTV slamSeveral opposition leaders have

said that the Governor’s visit will af-fect the autonomy of the State.

DMK work ing pres ident and

Leader of Opposition M K Stalin said that the Governor should give up making such visits. ‘His visits will no way help the State-Central relationship. Tamilnadu Governor does not even have the limited powers which the Puducherry Governor has,’ he said.

He further said that if the Governor wants to streamline the administra-tion then he should ask Chief Minister

Edappadi K Palaniswami to prove majority in the Assembly.’

Puducherry Chief Minister Naray-answamy said that the ‘disease’ of Governor interfering in the work of elected government has spreaded to Tamilnadu as well. TNCC president S Thirunavukkarasar, VCK chief Thol Thirumavalavan, CPI(M) and CPI too are opposed to the Governor’s action.

Similarly, expelled AIADMK leader

TTV Dhinakaran said that the interfer-ence of the Governor in the State ad-ministration will bring the government to a standstill just like in Puducherry and New Delhi. He said Jayalalithaa would never allowed such a move.

Ministers justify PurohitOn the other hand, Tamilnadu Min-

isters have said that the visits made by the Governor will not affect the State autonomy.

Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar said that there is no politics involved in the Governor’s visit and the State’s

autonomy will be held at all cost. In the meantime, S P Velumani said

that Governor has assured to get all the Central scheme to the State.

He further added that the Governor inspected the various projects that were completed in the State-Central collobration in Coimbatore.

He also said that there is nothing wrong in he inspections carried out by the Governor.

Likewise, Higher Education Minister K P Anbalagan contended that the Governor’s action would not amount to interference in administration. Ve-lumani has also made a similar remark.

Voicing out her opinion, BJP State head Tamilisai Soundararajan said that there is nothing wrong in the Governor’s visit and he is acting well within his powers. ‘Even the Ministers have welcomed he move of the Gov-ernor,’ she added.

BJP State general secretary Vanathi Srinivasan said that the Governor wanted to make use of his maiden visit to Coimbatore to interact with the offi cials, NGOs and members of the civil society.

A car moving on GST Road at Chrompet suddenly caught fi re today. Police offi cials and fi re services personnel jumped into immediate action and put off the fl ames within minutes. But the incident was enough to trigger moments of anxiety in the locality. Photo: C SANTHOSH

SPARK, SMOKE, FIRE

Governor Banwarilal Purohit at a clean-up drive in Coimbatore today.

OPERATION CLEANLINESS

As rains stop, offi cials startanti-encroachment drive

� Houses on Adyar bunds to be cleared to prevent fl ooding � Low pressure may bring isolated showersWhat will be done?

� Notices issued to 1,400 houses built close to the bunds of Adyar � Govt may provide alternative housing for those living close to the river.� Act ion based on CM’s direction

NT BureauChennai, Nov 15:

After brief spells of rains that started a couple days ago, the intensity has reduced signifi cantly over Chennai, with the forecast stating that the city may get isolated rain activities as the well-marked low pressure area is per-sisting over west central Bay of Bengal off North Andhra Pradesh coast.

The weather system is expected bring heavy rains over Coastal And-hra Pradesh and north Tamilnadu may get light rain with one or two moderate spells.

The weather will remain partly cloudy to cloudy from now on, with Chennai surpassing its monthly aver-age rainfall within the fi rst 14 days.

Satell ite pictures on Tuesday evening showed that clouds spread out f rom Chennai to Nel lore, Kakinada, Visakhapatnam, Brah-mapur, Puri and Bhubaneshwar. Heavier clouds waited at some

distance out into the sea. Meanwhile, the Water Resources

Department has sent notice to 1,400 houses built close to the bunds of Adyar river. According to reports, the notices have been sent to the houses that have been built between Manni-vakkam and Mudichur. Reports also suggest that the department is look-ing at providing an alternative housing for those living close to the river.

This action comes in the wake of Chief Minister Edappadi K Palan-iswami issuing a number of directions

I-T to hand over Sasi raids case to ED?� Jaya TV top offi cial, Ilavarasi’s daughters quizzed

Astrologer consulted?If reports doing rounds are to

be believed, the I-T team which raided the house of Sasikala’s family astrologer, Chandrashek-ar, in Cuddalore, was carried away by the man’s skills. He only does astrology reading for people close to him. However, the I-T offi cials during the raid reportedly asked Chandrashekar to predict their future and were impressed with him.

Vivek’s sister Krishnapriya at the Income Tax offi ce in the city today.

Photo: R THIYAGARAJAN

NT BureauChennai, Nov 14:

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) may take over the case of large scale tax evasion by the family members and associates of expelled AIADMK leader V K Sasikala, from the Income Tax (IT) department. According to sources, offi cials are waiting for orders from the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).

‘The illegal transactions found during the marathon raids are huge and they come under the limits of the ED,’ sources said.

Meanwhile, the I-T department has been conducting inquiry with several persons at its offi ce in Nun-gambakkam. This morning, the gen-

eral manager of Jaya TV, Natarajan, came for inquiry. Ilavarasi’s daugh-ters- Krishnapriya and Shakeela and their husbands-Karthikeyan Kaliya-perumal and Rajarajan, respectively,

appeared for questioning before the IT department. Ilavarasi is the sister-in-law of Sasikala. Both Ilavarasi and Sasikala are now lodged in a Karanataka jail in a disproportionate assets case.

It maybe noted that Sasikala stayed at Krishnapriya’s house in T Nagar when she came out on her fi ve day parole recently. The I-T team has reportedly found that Sasikala trans-ferred nearly Rs 600 crore worth properties to other persons during this time.

A highly placed source in the I-T department said, ‘The question-ing sessions are focusing on Vivek Jayaraman (nephew of Sasikala and son of Ilavarasi who currently heads

Kamal's tweet against Hindus creates fresh row

NT BureauChennai, Nov 15:

Days after actor Kamal Haasan's outburst on Hindus alleging few groups among them are instigating violence, he was caught in a fresh row as he made a poetic tweet in Tamil condemn-ing a video allegedly out in social media where a young 'Hindu' child stabs the actor's photograph.

In his tweet, Kamal Haasan, ex-pressed his ire at the video and wrote, 'Nature will eat me one day. Try kill me now. We will win.' In another tweet, he mentioned Hindu extremism has re-sulted in a sowing the seed of anger in a young mind and given the child a knife.

Credibility of the video in questionThough the video went viral on

social media and even it was shared on Hindu Maha Sabha's Facebook

Q&A

Jaya TV), his benami Arun Kumar who takes care of his business- Jazz Cinemas and Ilavarasi’s daughter Krishnapriya.’

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His faux pausThe actor who recently met Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in Thiru-

vananthapuram, was all praise for the Kerala government in a series of tweets. he ackowledged them when a non-Brahman was made temple priest. However his tweet yesterday heaping laurels on Kerala Communist government landed him on a wrong foot.

In response to a circular that was out attributing Kerala government that said com-munity is removed from schools application forms, Kamal Haasan tweeted, 'Bravo again Kerala Govt. Your circular is historic. Iv'e refused fi lling caste and religion columns in my daughter's birth certifi cate. My daughters decided after they were 21. Shruti has chosen to be Hindu. Akshara might stay without caste or religion.'

However it was eventually brought to his notice that the circular was old issued in 1974.

page, activists say, 'A celebrity like Kamal Haasan should have checked the credentials of the video before making a 'communal' comment. No one know the source of the clip and it was simply shared. An actor before making statements attributing it to 'Hindu terror' should have acted with

responsibility and checked its creden-tials', say many. 'Such things are quite normal in social media. There are groups and individuals who indulge in foul play by spreading such clips. It is responsibility of the celebrities concerned to act with responsibility'.

Remember his tweets and statements on various issues concerning the state are instantly lauded or lampooned. He

changed his views on demonetisation, which he praised a year ago. Kamal recently earned BJP's ire with his 'Hindu terrorism' comment. He later clarifi ed that media has played it up. He was actually referring extremism and said he got friends and followers in Hindus too.