NEW DELHI: Congress MP Karti Chidambaram raised many eyebrows on Tuesday by suggesting that Chennai Municipal Corporation needed to learn lessons in waste management from their counterparts in Indore in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh.
Reacting to a report that the officials from Greater Chennai Corporation plan to visit Europe to study waste management techniques in May, Karti posted on X, “Can the @chennaicorp name one learning & implementation of a practice from any of the previous study tours? Poor garbage management, street dogs & cattle, broken sidewalks & potholed roads is the hallmark of Chennai. Visit Indore to start with.”
The compliment for Indore municipal body which has for long been governed by BJP came at a time when the DMK-Congress alliance in Tamil Nadu have been at loggerheads with Modi govt at the Centre on a whole range of issues, from languages to delimitation.
BJP spokesperson C R Kesavan could not resist taking a jab. “Another Congress MP commending and lauding PM Narendra Modi ji ki guarantee,” he wrote on X, referring to the praise of Modi govt ‘s foreign policy by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor earlier.
The report posted on X handle of Namma Chennai claimed that the World Bank will support Chennai officials’ visit to cities like Barcelona to study clean waste management. “This could help Tamil Nadu adopt better solutions amid protests over local dump yards,” it said.
Indore has bagged the title of India’s ‘Cleanest City‘ for the seventh consecutive time. Chennai ranked 199 among 446 cities in Swachh Survekshan in 2023.
