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Leaders battle virus from their constituencies
Only five ministers and a dozen city-based MLAs are stationed in Chennai as both ruling AIADMK and the Opposition DMK have directed the legislators to be in their constituencies during the time of corona outbreak. The state ministers are now into corona inspections within their native districts.
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According to informed Secretariat sources, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has asked his Cabinet colleagues to focus on their native districts and address issues related to COVID-19 outbreak.
He had also instructed a few ministers to work in tandem with the district collectors and execute the containment plan for the next two weeks. In simple, the ministers and MLAs of the AIADMK can return to their official bungalows and MLA hostels only after virus outbreak subsidies.
“Our party leader (MK Stalin) had also issued a set of instructions for the party MLAs to execute in their constituencies during this COVID-19 outbreak and we are briefing the party high command on a daily basis,” Saidapet MLA and former Chennai mayor Ma Subramanian told DT Next.
All the DMK MLAs have been directed to do their best by providing masks for health workers and provisions for the destitute, the MLA added.
DMK leader Stalin is also making selective phone calls to party MLAs to check out on their corona relief works.
In Chennai, Fisheries Minister D Jayakumar and Revenue Minister RB Udayakumar are also making daily sorties inspecting the Amma canteens and helplines set up by the Corporation.
Meanwhile, AIADMK leader and Deputy CM O Panneerselvam is focusing on his terrain comprising Theni and Madurai districts
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