Coimbatore, April 06: Will Small and Rural Industries Minister Pongalur Palanisamy withstand the onslaught of problems caused to the industry due to frequent powercuts in this textile city, known as ‘Manchester of India’?
Coimbatore South, a new urban constituency born out of the delimitation exercise, where Palanisamy is trying his luck, has an electorate mostly comprising small-scale industrialists.
With polling day a week away, the overwhelming demand of residents in this industrially advanced seat is a solution to the power shortage, which has adversely hit the city’s economy.
“Give us power, we will take you to the seat of power,” seems to be the general mantra of Coimbatoreans, particularly those in Coimbatore South and North constituencies, two major urban seats in the district.
-Agencies