CHENNAI: Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday turned tutor to a newly-elected AIADMK councillor, C Selvam, (Ward-2 in Thiruvottiyur zone) after he fumbled with right choice of words while taking the oath of office at Ripon Building.When Selvam was asked to take oath of office, he, instead of using the customary words ‘... do swear in the name of God’, said ‘... do swear in the name of Amma - kaaval deivam.’ Noticing the mix-up of words, the CM intervened and asked Selvam to take the oath once again in front of Commissioner D Karthikeyan and told him to use only those words given in the swearing-in format.Barring K P Shankar, a DMK councillor from Ward-5, who is in prison on murder charges, all other 199 newly-elected councillors, including 24 DMK members, took the oath of office. AIADMK members booed down a Congress and a DMK councillor during the oath-taking ceremony when they used their party leaders’ name (Kalaignar and Annai Sonia Gandhi) during the proceedings. Karthikeyan came to the rescue of both and appealed to the AIADMK councillors to maintain the decorum of the council.First AnnouncementAt the end of the swearing-in ceremony, the new Mayor, Saidai S Duraisamy, announced that garbage removal in the city would be taken up on a war-footing. Express on Tuesday had carried a story on pile up of garbage across the city.
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