In the Maharashtra Legislative Council, Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party attacked the BJP-Shiv Sena-ruled Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on corruption charges.
In a debate on various issues facing Mumbai and the alleged corruption in the BMC, Leader of Opposition Dhananjay Munde (NCP) said the ruling alliance in BMC did nothing except indulge in corruption. He demanded the government order a probe by the Frauds Wing of the Registrar of Companies against black-listed contractors.
Joining the debate, The Congress’s Narayan Rane said he wanted to know where the funds of Rs 38,000 crore in BMC budget have gone, as citizens got only “potholed roads and crumbling civic infrastructure.”
Mr. Rane demanded the government give “voluntary retirement to those in power in BMC, dissolve the civic body and conduct a probe by CBI within next six months into the corruption charges”,
The NCP demanded a probe by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and the Anti-Corruption Bureau in the graft cases of last 10 years.
NCP MLC Kiran Pawaskar said, “an MP had levelled allegations of corruption against top Sena leadership, their relatives and their private secretary in the cases of alleged corruption in the BMC.”
The mention of Sena leadership was vociferously contested by party member Anil Parab and others. As the uproar continued the Panel Chairman Niranjan Dawkhare adjourned the proceedings. —PTI
