AIADMK MLAs meet Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Coimbatore
The Hindu
.Three MLAs from AIADMK met Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Coimbatore on Oct 3, 2023. They shared dais with her at Credit Outreach Programme & submitted a memorandum on coconut farmers' issues. No political discussion took place. MLAs invited as per protocol.
Days after the AIADMK snapped ties with the BJP and withdrew from the BJP-led NDA, three of its MLAs shared the dais with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at an official function in Coimbatore on Tuesday, October 3, 2023. The MLAs were invited to the function as per protocol.
Pollachi MLA V. Jayaraman, Valparai MLA Amul Kandasami, and Mettupalayam MLA A.K. Selvaraj met the Minister on Tuesday morning and also shared the dais with her at a credit outreach programme.
The Finance Minister’s office posted on X (earlier Twitter) that the MLAs met her before the commencement of the programme.
An official of the Coimbatore District Lead Bank said the organisers of the event, the State Level Bankers Committee - Tamil Nadu convenor and the Coimbatore District Lead Bank, had invited all the MLAs of Coimbatore district and the MP. However, only three of them attended.
MLA Jayaraman told reporters later that they had met the Minister to submit a memorandum on issues faced by coconut farmers in and around Pollachi, and there was no political discussion at the meeting.
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