Dalit panchayat prez alleges caste abuse from her deputy

A Dalit woman panchayat president of Avvaiyarkuppam village under Tindivanam taluk, K Mahalakshmi, has alleged that vice-president Veeramani has been preventing her from discharging her duties and verbally abusing her using casteist slurs.

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In a complaint to district collector C Palani on Tuesday evening, Mahalakshmi said, "Veeramani, who belongs to Most Backward Class, has been verbally abusing me from the day of assuming office. He does not even let me sit in my designated chair at the office. Recently, we planned to carry out two drinking water infrastructure works at a cost of ₹8.2 lakh in our village. Construction of water tanks is almost over. In order to com