CM to take part in grama sabha
The Hindu
The meeting will be held at Pappapatti reserved panchayat
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin will on Saturday take part in a grama sabha at the Pappapatti reserved panchayat, which became notorious for not allowing people belonging to the Scheduled Castes to become the head of the caste Hindu-dominated rural local body for 10 years.
The district administration has spruced up the local body for the first-ever visit of a Chief Minister for the grama sabha, to be held on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanthi. “It is a momentous occasion, as the Chief Minister himself is coming to our panchayat,” said two-time president of Pappapatti, S. Muruganantham.
Along with Pappapatti, Keeripatti and Nattamangalam in the district and Kottakatchiyendal in Virudhunagar had become an eye-sore after local caste Hindus put a spoke into the process of electing the president, after the panchayats were reserved for SCs in 1996.