The long-awaited `praja darbar’ of Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan to hear people’s problems will be launched at Raj Bhavan on Friday with the opening day’s proceedings limited to giving an ear to women’s issues on the platform, ‘mahila darbar’.
It was more than a year ago, much before differences between the Governor and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao surfaced, that the former had expressed desire to start the praja darbar with a view to take the problems of people to the notice of the government and get them resolved as they went unheard in the top echelons of power. However, it did not take off but Ms. Soundararajan set up a grievance box at Raj Bhavan where she received a number of complaints every month.
Serious differences between Ms. Soundararajan and the government came to fore earlier this year with the conduct of Republic Day celebrations separately by the former and the Chief Minister. The State government found fault with Ms. Soundararajan for giving a speech on the occasion which was not approved by the Cabinet.
