Panchayat president accused of bias in implementing development works

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Residents of Kannanallur who came to the Collectorate successful  Tirunelveli connected  Monday.

Residents of Kannanallur who came to the Collectorate successful Tirunelveli connected Monday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Accusing the Scheduled Caste panchayat president of “prejudiced implementation” of improvement works lone successful his autochthonal colony wherever the Dalits unrecorded successful ample number, a radical of Kannanallur colony panchayat ward members and the nationalist submitted petition to District Collector R. Sukumar connected Monday seeking the Collector’s involution to guarantee the impartial execution of improvement works.

“When the ward members and the nationalist questioned the colony panchayat president astir this favouritism and the, helium threatens america that helium would registry lawsuit against america nether the SC / ST Act,” the petitioners said.

The petitioner ward members and the nationalist from Kannanallur colony panchayat adjacent Valliyoor successful the territory said the colony panchayat president post, which was reserved for Scheduled Caste, had go an “autocratic position” owed to the cognition of the contiguous panchayat president, who refuses to uniformly allot improvement works with the funds allotted for the agrarian section body.

While roads, thoroughfare lights, synthetic drinking h2o tanks, escaped houses etc. are being sanctioned for Thamraikulam village, different villages specified arsenic Thangaiyam, Vilvanampudur, Chittoor, Kalmanickapuram, Kannanallur, Panichchakulam, Muthulaapuram and a thoroughfare of Vaithilingapuram are being neglected adjacent though these hamlets person important Dalit population.

“While each improvement works are being executed Thamaraikulam, 1 of the 8 villages successful the panchayat and the autochthonal spot of panchayat president wherever the Dalits unrecorded successful ample number, different areas are being “wantonly neglected”. When a fewer ward members and the nationalist appealed to the panchayat president to impartially instrumentality the improvement works impartially successful each areas, helium is verbally abusing america saying that nary had to thatch him however to discharge his duties. He besides threatens america that helium would registry ailment against america nether the SC / ST Act if we situation to question his functioning arsenic panchayat president. Since our petitions with the Block Development Officer, Valliyoor did not acceptable things right, we’ve petitioned the Collector,” said R. Bhagyalakshmi, subordinate of ward 4 of Kannanallur colony panchayat.

The ward members besides alleged that the president, without decently conducting the colony panchayat meeting, was either forcibly obtaining signatures from them oregon forging their signatures successful panchayat records.

Retired Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation operator S. Arumugam of Shanthi Nagar successful Palayamkottai submitted a petition seeking enactment against the Managing Director of TNSTC’s Tirunelveli Division for not allegedly releasing his gratuity adjacent though helium retired successful 2019 and District Labour Court had directed him to authorisation the gratuity immediately.

One Lakshmanan of Sethurayanpudhur nether Maanur constabulary presumption limits tried to immolate himself connected the Collectorate premises arsenic the constabulary reportedly did not instrumentality immoderate enactment connected his ailment against 4 persons who allegedly refused to repay the wealth they had borrowed from him.

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Published - January 19, 2026 09:42 p.m. IST

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