CHENNAI: Tension prevailed at the Kancheepuram Corporation Council meeting on Thursday after the ruling and opposition councillors took the mayor and officials to task over poor sanitation, piled-up garbage, and the threat posed by the rising mosquito menace across the town.

As soon as the meeting — chaired by Mayor Mahalakshmi Yuvaraj of the DMK — commenced in the morning, the councillors from the AIADMK, PMK, BJP, and even ruling DMK benches, took to their feet over the civic body’s failure in maintaining cleanliness and providing basic amenities in many of the wards.

Opposition councillors said that garbage heaps are overflowing in almost every street and that corporation workers are not regular in collecting trash. “Drainage water is stagnating everywhere, and the mosquito menace ha

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