Jayalalithaa seeks resounding RK Nagar victory

Chennai

Jayalalithaa, also the sitting MLA from RK Nagar, said that her government was swift in providing food and accommodation to the affected people during the Chennai floods caused by heaviest rainfall to lash the city in 100 years.

“In RK Nagar alone, Rs.48 crore worth relief measures were extended to about 97,411 families,” she pointed out.

Thanking the voters for giving a massive mandate to her in the by-election last year, she appealed to the voters to give her a more excellent victory this time. “You have belief in me but my belief in you is immeasurable,” Jayalalithaa said in her attempt to make an emotional connect with the people.

Recalling the hardships people faced during the DMK regime due to power cuts, she said that the situation has changed now and added that power cuts were history now.

Pointing out to the various schemes and welfare measures implemented in RK Nagar by the present government, Jayalalithaa pointed to the renovation of Kasimedu fishing harbour at the cost of Rs.92.63 crore, construction of railway overbridge at Korukkupet-Cochrane Basin Road and provision of alternative accommodation to slum dwellers as only a sampling of people-friendly initiatives.

“The earlier government carried out drinking water and drainage works only to the tune of Rs.43 lakh and Rs.50 lakh, respectively, but in the last five years Rs.6.44 crore worth drinking water schemes and Rs.17.68 crore drainage works have been completed,” she reminded the electorate.  She also assured the people of RK Nagar that the Rs.193.26 crore worth schemes, for which foundation stones were laid on February this year, will be implemented soon.

On the works carried out by the Greater Chennai Corporation in the city benefiting the public, Jayalalithaa said that 1824 basic infrastructure facilities like parks, roads and street lamps among others, were created at an outlay of Rs.320 crore.