Union Minister Piyush Goyal alleged that Chief Minister Jayalalithaa did not come to the constituency during the time of floods. (File photo)
Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal today alleged that even basic amenities like clean drinking water is not available in Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's RK Nagar constituency, and charged that local issues had not been addressed for long.
Campaigning in support of BJP candidate MN Raja at RK Nagar in Chennai, Mr 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 in Chennai.
"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 Ms Jayalalithaa did not come to the constituency during the time of floods.
"When the people were suffering, (she) cannot serve 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
"But the chief minister had no time for her people," he alleged.