Jayalalithaa deified in local body resolution

CHENNAI: The first meeting of the AIADMK-majority Corporation Council on Wednesday unanimously adopted a congratulatory resolution praising the party chief and Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa as the mentor, visionary and guiding power for all the councillors as well as the Mayor.At the end of the three-hour debate on the resolution, besides Mayor Saidai S Duraisamy, 69 councillors and Villivakkam MLA JCD Prabhakar spoke about their party leader and every other speaker thanked Jayalalithaa for giving them a new role as people’s representatives at the historic Corporation.While airing his view on the resolution, which was placed as the first resolution by the council, the party’s senior leader in the house, V Sukumar Babu, said, “In the history of the Chennai Corporation, I never heard or saw such tremendous participation by more than 68 councillors, including from rival parties like Congress, VCK, MDMK and DMDK, for a single resolution and it is indeed a historic one.” Making a fervent appeal to all the ruling party councillors to obey the party leader Jayalalithaa’s advice to become the best-elected representative in the eyes of local people (voters), he said, “I sincerely appeal to my colleagues to take a pledge in the historic Council Hall to materialise Amma’s vision for the city to win hearts and minds of the Chennaiites.”In his concluding speech on the resolution thanking Jayalalithaa for being a mentor to all the AIADMK councillors, Mayor Duraisamy said, “While the AIADMK cadre and councillors regard Puratchi Thalaivi Amma as Kaaval Deivam and Kula Deivam in their view, for me, Amma is Kadavul (God) for choosing us as a part of the historic Council. Since Amma has chosen us to represent the people of the city, it is our paramount duty to materialise her vision for developing the metropolis on par with foreign cities.”At the end of the three-hour debate, the resolution was adopted unanimously and the AIADMK councillors thumped on the benches.