For the second straight council meeting, Tambaram City Municipal Corporation deliberately silenced the media room speaker, leaving journalists in the dark for 95 of the 100-minute session on Friday. Despite frantic pleas to the mayor, deputy mayor, and commissioner to unmute the feed, no one responded—fueling accusations that authorities were shielding embarrassing debates from public scrutiny.
The drama exploded when ten opposition councillors—nine AIADMK and one TMC(M)—marched in draped in black shirts, mosquito nets over their heads, and clutching toy dogs and cattle. Their stunt spotlighted the civic body’s catastrophic failure to tackle surging stray animal attacks, mosquito plagues, and street cattle chaos that’s terrorizing residents and endangering schoolchildren daily.
Inside the hall, DMK councillors erupted in fury over the props, demanding an end to “theatrics” and triggering a shouting match. AIADMK’s Leader of Opposition, Selaiyur G Shankar, led his bloc in a dramatic walkout, staging a sit-in at the entrance while blasting the administration’s “criminal lethargy” in ignoring flood-prone zones and health crises plaguing Tambaram’s 52 wards.
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Shankar later told reporters that despite repeated warnings, the corporation’s own data flags 24 high-risk flood areas—yet desilting of stormwater drains remains incomplete as the northeast monsoon looms. Ward 50’s M Yacoob piled on, demanding doctors for a neglected maternity hospital and exposing a private firm’s illegal blockade of a vital waterway in Tambaram Sanatorium that could drown entire neighborhoods.
As muted audio and councillor outrage expose a corporation in freefall, residents brace for monsoon floods, dog bites, and mosquito-borne diseases. With trust shattered and protests escalating, Tambaram’s civic meltdown is now impossible to silence—no matter how low they turn the volume.
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