Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has slapped a notice on RJ Malishka’s mother’s apartment in Bandra, after dengue breeding spots were discovered at the premises. The notice, which was sent to the RJ’s mother, Mrs Lily Mendonsa on Wednesday, warned of legal action. Of course, this comes close on the heels of Malishka’s widely watched video in which she slammed the civic body for the sorry state of city roads and not many believe that it is a coincidence.
“Taking revenge by sending notice is wrong and absurd. It’s absolutely the wrong way to deal with the Malishka jingle on civic issues; the jingle should have rather been handled in the rightful manner. The BMC shouldn’t have acted like this,” said Congress corporators Ravi Raja, who is the leader of the opposition in the civic house. “In a democratic set-up, if the right views are expressed in a proper manner, then it should be taken as a suggestion by the BMC rather than taking revenge,” he said.
BMC officials say that dengue mosquitoes were found breeding among the indoor plants in the RJ’s sixth floor apartment. “We have detected Aedes mosquito breeding in the clay bowl kept under the planter in front of the door. Indoor breeding was also detected in pots kept in the window,” read the report. Two Shiv Sena councillors were incensed by the lyrics of the jingle in the video, ‘Mumbai tula BMC var bharosa nahi ka’ (Mumbai don’t you have faith in BMC). One of the councillor had demanded that the civic chief file a Rs 500 crore defamation suite against the RJ’s radio network.
The insecticide department had started the drive of checking various residential complexes, construction sites and government offices etc, since January. In its six-month drive, the civic body has slapped 8,744 notices and has collected fine amounting to Rs 20,4600. In the period between January 1 to April 30, it detected den-gue larvae from 1,997 spots and 577 malaria breeding mosquitoes spots.
Similar cases of BMC vs Celebs
- In July 2016, the BMC had slapped a stop-work notice to comedian Kapil Sharma after an illegal extentsion on 1000sq ft area was observed at his residence in Versova.
- In December 2016, the BMC had slapped a notice to Bollywood actor Arjun Kapoor, after it found illegal construction of a terrace gym at his residence at Raheja Orchid in Juhu.
