Basic amenities lacking in Jaya's constituency: Goyal

Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal today alleged that even basic amenities like clean drinking water was not available in Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's R K Nagar constituency, and charged that local issues had not been addressed for long.
Campaigning in support of BJP candidate M N Raja at R K Nagar here, Goyal also came down hard on the Chief Minister, saying she did not have the time for her constituency during the December 2015 deluge even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi had come down "all the way" from Delhi.
"Can the Chief Minister not at least remove the wastage dumping ground from here (a long-pending local issue). Can the Chief Minister not provide clean drinking water to the people of her constituency," he said.

Not much effort has gone into the constituency even as people who elect a particular candidate "have certain expectations," he told reporters amid his campaigning here.
"I don't think just for the sake of electing a Chief Minister you can fool the people of this constituency anymore," he said.
Further, he alleged that Jayalalithaa did not come to the constituency during the time of floods.

"When the people were suffering, (she) cannot serve the the constituency, the people of the state. Prime Minister Modi came down all the way from Delhi to Chennai because his heart was with the people of Chennai, with the people of Tamil Nadu," he said

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Meanwhile, canvassing votes for BJP candidates at Paramakudi in Ramanathapuram district, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda accused the Dravidian parties of being corrupt and said the DMK and AIADMK were like "two sides of the same coin" and should be thrown out.
"If the parties were voted to power, the state would be spoilt and both should be throw out," he said at an election meeting where he introduced BJP candidates of Paramakudi, Mudukulathur, Tiruvadanai and Ramanathapuram segments.
He claimed that many central schemes could not be implemented in Tamil Nadu as the AIADMK government did not co-operate.

He described the DMK-Congress alliance as an opportunist one which was corrupt and should be ignored.
If a BJP government came to power in the state, all the fishermen's problems would be solved, he said.
BJP leader Muralidhar Rao and other leaders participated in the meeting.