Residents of Arul Nagar in Ward 45 staged a protest for a brief while on Monday morning to highlight the delay in cleaning drain. Sources said that the residents took to the street near the police outpost at the Kanappan Nagar Junction to complain that the civic body had not cleaned the drain and that sewage flow was choked.
As the Ward Councillor Gunasekaran was away attending a wedding, Ward 44 Councillor Venthamarai Balu rushed to the spot, convinced the residents that the drain would be cleaned and asked them to return home. Mr. Balu said that he went there as a party colleague to sort out the problem. He had asked the officials to go the spot, check if there was a problem and then fix it. Mr. Gunasekaran said that the residents had not raised the issue with him but resorted to protest at the behest of a few people who wanted to derive political mileage in the election season.