A Punjabi flavour to local bodies polls in Coimbatore
The Hindu
Wearing a white turban to complement his white dhoti-shirt attire, H.S. Anand was seen pacing up and down at the Coimbatore Corporation West Zone office in R.S. Puram. “I’m filing papers to contest in
Wearing a white turban to complement his white dhoti-shirt attire, H.S. Anand was seen pacing up and down at the Coimbatore Corporation West Zone office in R.S. Puram.
“I’m filing papers to contest in Ward 71 (R.S. Puram) as I have lived 60 of the 64 years of my life in and around the area and want to serve these people,” he said.
Mr. Anand, known in the city as Tony Singh, said he was filing nomination as an independent. “If I’m elected on a party ticket and were to win, I’ll be forced to serve the party men more than the public. By being an independent, I don’t have that compulsion,” he explained.
In 2011, the Karnataka government announced that five botanical gardens will be developed on the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru across the State. But according to the latest developments, there will only be four such gardens as the Horticulture Department is most likely to drop the project that was supposed to come up in Chikkaballapura district.