Chennai: Senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah today almost confirmed alliance with the ruling AIADMK for the upcoming State Assembly elections in Tamilnadu. Praising the leadership of Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and Deputy CM O Panneerselvam he came down heavily on the DMK and Congress for dynasty politics and corruption. Shah dedicated the newly built Chennais fifth reservoir and laid the foundation stone for the second phase of Chennai Metro Rail project. Shah who arrived from Delhi at 1.40 pm drove to a star hotel for rest. From there he came to the function venue Kalaivanar Arangam where he laid the foundation stone for a slew of infrastructure projects involving a total outlay of Rs 67378 crore in the presence of Palaniswami Panneerselvam Ministers and officials. Security arrangements have been tightened in view of Shahs visit with the deployment of more than 3000 police personnel on bandobust duty. During the 90-minute event Amit Shah dedicated the Rs 380 crore Thervoy Kandigai reservoir in neighbouring Tiruvallur district and laid the foundation stone for the phase II of Chennai Metro Rail at an estimated cost of Rs 61843 crore. The new reservoir was expected to further augment the drinking water requirements of this teeming megapolis besides meeting the additional needs. The reservoir formed by combining two lakes Thervoy Kandigai and Kannankottai was spread across 1495 acres and would be the fifth reservoir for the city adding to the existing four main reservoirs–Poondi Sholavaram RedHills and Chembarambakkam–which together have a total storage capacity of 11257 mcft. The new reservoir would facilitate supply of 65 million litres a day (MLD) water to the city and the project would raise the combined water storage in the lakes by 1000 mcft.

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