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The authoritative photograph of Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay has not been displayed wrong the enclosure of the Mayor astatine the Coimbatore Corporation office.
C. Joseph Vijay, president of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, assumed bureau arsenic Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu connected May 10 aft securing enactment from respective governmental parties pursuing the Assembly election. Following this, his authoritative photograph was installed astatine authorities offices crossed the State, including the Coimbatore Collectorate and Corporation offices.
However, the Chief Minister’s photograph has not been placed wrong the enclosure of Coimbatore Mayor K. Ranganayaki.
K. Ranganayaki, a DMK councillor from Ward 29, became Mayor of Coimbatore successful August 2024 aft Kalpana demitted office. The existent elected section assemblage medication is acceptable to proceed till January 2027.
While the offices of the Corporation Commissioner and Deputy Mayor person displayed the Chief Minister’s photograph, it is absent wrong the Mayor’s chamber. Photographs of erstwhile Chief Ministers M. Karunanidhi and M.K. Stalin, on with elder DMK leaders K.N. Nehru and Senthil Balaji, are displayed successful the room.
The Chief Minister’s photograph has alternatively been placed extracurricular the bureau adjacent the Mayor’s assistant’s room.
Responding to the issue, Mayor Ranganayaki said the Commissioner and Deputy Mayor had kept the Chief Minister’s photograph successful their offices, but she had chosen not to spot it wrong her chamber.
“I cannot region the photographs of my leaders... Seeing the photographs of our leaders gives maine motivation. Until the extremity of my tenure arsenic Mayor successful January, I volition not support the Chief Minister’s photograph wrong my chamber,” she said.
She further said that photographs of the Chief Minister had not been displayed successful respective zonal offices and different section assemblage offices arsenic well.
