In an unheard of move, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has allocated an office to Mumbai’s mother or father minister within the BMC headquarters building.
BMC Commissioner and administrator Iqbal Singh Chahal instructed The Indian Express that the proposal came from the guardian minister’s office asking for a cabin on the civic body HQ.
With no elected BMC representatives presently in region since the remaining body’s time period resulted in March 2022, the civic polls are still pending. The BMC is underneath an administrator’s rule.
The new office is placed on the second one ground near the commissioner’s cabin. Earlier, this space housed the civic training committee contributors.
On Friday, suburban Mumbai’s dad or mum minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha, along side former BJP corporators, took fee of the new office. Lodha stated it is going to be used to address public grievances.
“As a mother or father minister I even have travelled to all of the 15 unique wards in suburban Mumbai and addressed more than 15 thousand issues associated with the residents, out of which around three,000 troubles had been solved immediately. This in the end highlighted the want to have a centrally positioned workplace which will assist us to cope with the human beings’s trouble,” Lodha newshounds on Friday.
Chahal informed Express, “The country government has launched a ‘Government at your step’ campaign in which the ministers are travelling their constituencies and interacting with human beings. I acquired an application from the mum or dad minister’s workplace to allot a cabin in the civic headquarters in order that residents can visit them. Unlike Mantralaya, BMC is out there for all and all of the civic officials would also be in the identical building. Based on this request, an workplace turned into allotted for the guardian minister’s publish and not to any person or political chief, particularly.”
DM Sukhtankar, who became the primary administrator of BMC among April and November in 1984, instructed Express, “Normally, MLAs don’t have any direct function to play inside the management, however as long as rationality is concerned an workplace ought to be allocated to any consultant in the civic headquarters, handiest if that individual is rendering carrier to the civic body,”
However, opposition leaders criticised the pass. UBT chief Aaditya Thackeray stated all Mumbai MLAs, no matter birthday celebration, ought to get cabins in BMC.
“We have seen that every one the office bearers from BJP are actually sitting in the newly allotted cabin. The municipal commissioner has banned political parties from having their places of work in BMC, however this is ongoing. The commissioner wishes to recognize that a change in government will take place quickly and then he could be held responsible,” Aaditya told Express on Friday.
“Who authorized and sanctioned the workplace space for Mr. Mangal Prabhat Lodha within the @mybmc head workplace in Mumbai? No rule or regulation of BMC permits a mum or dad minister to set up an workplace there. With no corporators in workplace, is @BJP4Maharashtra led authorities trying to capture BMC?” questioned NCP spokesperson, Clyde Crasto.
