Opposition slams BJP's move to lock MBMC offices
State Congress committee member Rajkumar Mishra has vowed that his party will stand in support of the civic chief.
Mumbai: The move by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to lock and boycott the offices in the main administrative building of the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) has drawn flak from the opposition, bureaucracy, citizens and local social activists. The BJP is protesting against civic chief Dr Naresh Gite, accusing of “autocratic behaviour”. Sena legislator Pratap Sarnaik has threatened that his corporators will take over the offices and start working from there if the BJP fails to mend its ways. State Congress committee member Rajkumar Mishra has vowed that his party will stand in support of the civic chief.
“Instead of indulging in such stunts which is a clear act of insult to the electoral mandate, the BJP office bearers should instead tender their resignations,” said Congress corporator Jubeir Inamdar.
The simmering tension between the rulers and the civic chief flared on Friday, after all, officer bearers including the mayor, deputy mayor, standing committee chairman, house leader, chairperson and deputy chairperson of the women and child welfare panel and all six ward chiefs locked and walked out of their offices in protest.
Dr Gite said, “I am doing my job and won’t buckle under such pressure tactics which are aimed to endorse biased decisions. Citizens need not worry, our entire civic machinery is on regular working mode.”