It's a sorry picture on CM Jaya's turf

CHENNAI: Ideally, they are expected to be on the field giving directions to official machinery in the times of crisis, but senior ministers of Tamil Nadu were on Sunday busy posing for shutterbugs in R K Nagar, CM J Jayalalithaa's home constituency. For the record, they were to launch a mass cleaning exercise in New Washermenpet.But in the name of the 'exercise', electricity minister Natham R Viswanathan and his colleague held a shovel to showcase a piece of trash on it to the flashbulbs even as passersby criticized the duo. "We are ashamed by their act," said A Ravindran, a resident of Tondiarpet. At least 708 doctors are out in Chennai to run camps, 40 of which are in R K Nagar alone. READ ALSO:Amma will save us: AIADMK poemMany doctors from Tiruvannamalai Hospital and paramedical students were waiting patiently for the ministers to end their shutterbug moments so they could tend to the residents.