CHENNAI: Better Chennai Company‘s first lady duffedar (marshal), a job that requires her to a part of the mayor’s ceremonial retinue, has been shunted out of the mayoral workplace for allegedly defying an order to not put on lipstick throughout an official project final month.
SB Madhavi, 50, purportedly acquired a switch order minutes after she requested mayor R Priya’s private assistant, Siva Sankar, to justify barring her or anyone from sporting lipstick to work.”You requested me to not put on lipstick, however I did so. If this can be a crime, present me the government order prohibiting me from sporting lipstick,” Madhavi wrote in response to an Aug 6 memo from Sankar.
“That is Better Chennai Company, and such directions are a violation of human rights. Your memo stands provided that I didn’t work throughout obligation hours,” she mentioned. The memo talked about costs like “dereliction of obligation”, “not coming to work throughout working hours” and “disobeying orders of seniors”. Since Madhavi was transferred to the company’s Manali zone, the duffedar’s put up has been vacant.
Mayor Priya, who’s from DMK, mentioned the duffedar’s participation in a trend present throughout Girls’s Day celebrations at Ripon Buildings in Chennai had invited criticism. “This was conveyed to her. Additionally, the duffedar wore matte lipsticks, which had been too placing. Because the mayor’s workplace continuously receives ministers and embassy officers, my PA requested her to not put on such shades.”
However the mayor, the primary lady from the SC group to carry the put up, insisted that Madhavi’s switch “is not associated to this (sporting lipstick)”. Madhavi, a single mother or father, mentioned the “faraway” Manali zone was “a punishment posting” since Anna Nagar, Ambattur, and Valsaravakkam had been nearer.
