Rajkot: Unruly scenes were witnessed at the central zone office of Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) and 17 Congress members were arrested for trying to barge into the chamber of the RMC commissioner on Friday.
The Congress members and municipal councillors were agitating against hoardings allegedly put up illegally by two cellphone companies in various parts of the city.
Leader of the opposition in the RMC, Vashram Sagathia, alleged that the companies illegally put up as many as 275 hoardings across the city, causing a loss of Rs 8-Rs 9 crore to the RMC.
Demanding that RMC charge the companies for the hoardings, around 40 Congress members held a dharna at RMC’s central zone office.
“When the agitating councillors were trying to barge into the RMC commissioner’s chamber, they were stopped by cops who carried them out physically,” said an RMC official. Those detained were Sagathia, Mahesh Rajput, Jashvantsinh Bhatt, Nilesh Maru, Ghanshyamsinh Jadeja, Tushar Nandani, Bhavesh Boricha, Manishaba Vala, Hiral Rathod, Gopal Borana, Pravin Sorani, Ananda Chawda, Mukesh Jadav, Vashram Chandapa, Prabhat Dangar, Keyur Masrani and Raju Sarvaiya.
Security personnel try to stop Congressmen from barging inside municipal commissioner’s office in the city on Friday