CHENNAI: A war of words broke out in the Greater Chennai Corporation council on Thursday after AIADMK councillor KPK Sathish Kumar claimed that the Nemmeli desalination plant was brought in by former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.

"The former CM, during her regime, implemented the project which benefited people of Sholinganallur," he said.

DMK councillors immediately objected, saying it was former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi who initiated the project. "How can you fake the facts?" one of them asked, prompting Deputy Mayor M Magesh Kumaar to intervene. "It was under the DMK regime that the desalination plant was brought in," he clarified.

The 100 million litres a day (MLD) Nemmeli desalination plant was proposed and approved during the 2006–11 DMK government, with the foundation laid i

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