Chennai News Highlights, September 27, 2022: Four people were injured after a crane machine lifting heavy metal rods for the construction of piers at a metro rail site toppled and fell on a truck and dropped some of the rods on a bus in Ramapuram near Chennai Tuesday morning, said the police. According to the police, when the crane was lifting the rods from the truck around 4 am, it overturned and the iron rods fell on a Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) bus. The bus was carrying transport workers to the Alandur depot from Kundrathur on Mount Poonamalle Road.
In other news, AIADMK interim general secretary K Palaniswami on Tuesday announced the removal of senior leader Panrutty S Ramachandran from the party for alleged anti-party activities. The action came in the wake of Ramachandran reportedly making some critical remarks against the interim party chief. In a party statement, Palaniswami said Ramachandran was being removed as the party’s Organisation Secretary, as well as from the AIADMK’s primary membership for bringing “disrepute” to the organisation.
The opposition AIADMK has demanded that the state government arrest the culprits responsible for vandalising the statue of party founder M G Ramachandran at Teynampet here, on Tuesday. Some unidentified miscreants had damaged the face of the party founder’s statue, AIADMK interim general secretary K Palaniswami said. Condemning the incident, Palaniswami said in a tweet, “some anti-social elements had vandalised the statue of ‘revolutionary’ leader MGR. I urge the government to immediately arrest those who want to tarnish our leader’s reputation and are trying to disturb public peace and tranquility.”
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Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chennai/chennai-tamil-nadu-news-live-updates-8172983/
