Chennai: Tamilnadu Revenue Minister R B Udhayakumar today said that the Grama Sabha meetings were cancelled as it was difficult to make arrangements to conduct them amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
‘There are no political reasons behind the decision to cancel the meetings,’ he said.
The State government on Thursday decided to call off the grama sabha meetings scheduled for Friday (Gandhi Jayanti) across the State. In several districts, the public relations officers announced the cancellation ‘in view of the Covid-19 pandemic’.
DMK president M K Stalin said the government cancelled the meetings, fearing that the grama sabhas would pass resolutions against the recent laws.
However, the panchayat presidents belonging to the DMK would meet the people and explain the dangers posed by the laws, he added.