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Who should pay for backlit pics on high-mast lamps? MLAs or panchayats?
2025-04-18 13:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Palakkad: On March 25, a Palakkad-based social activist, Boban Mattumantha, shot off a missive to Palakkad collector G Priyanka asking her to remove all the backlit photographs of MLAs found on the poles of high-mast lamps in the district. Mattumantha was not satisfied with just the removal of these backlit images from high-mast poles installed using the Asset Development Funds of MLAs. He wanted the collector to recover from the MLAs all the electricity charges the local bodies have had to bear to keep these MLA snapshots lighted in the nights. He had come across two such MLA photographs with bright nightglow in Palakkad district: Kongad MLA Santhakumari's and Alathur MLA K D Prasenan's. He took the pictures and attached them along with his letter to the district collector. Later, he came across an illuminated image of M B Rajesh, the minister of local bodies himself, on a high-mast pole at Nangalassery panchayat in Rajesh's constituency Thrithala. Mattumantha suspects that several M...
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