As soon as the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) came to power in May 2021, many of its leaders promised that they would rebuild Chennai city’s infrastructure in a way that flooding due to incessant rains, reminiscent of the deluge in December 2015, would be a thing of the past.
Even during the next two monsoons, DMK supporters on social media were quick to point out the good work done by the party’s members of legislative assembly the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) in ensuring that the water doesn’t inundate the streets and roads as it happened during former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s regime in 2015.
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