Ex-MLA slams successor over housing project
TNN | Feb 28, 2019, 04:15 ISTMangaluru: Former MLA J R Lobo on Wednesday demanded the resignation of his successor D Vedavyas Kamath, accusing him of incompetence.
Lobo also threatened to file defamation case against Kamath, if the sitting MLA continued to level baseless allegations against him.
The issue mainly pertains to the construction of a township under Ashraya Project that intended to house 930 poor families, at Shaktinagar. Just as most of the paper work had been completed and the construction work was about to begin, environmentalists succeeded in getting a stay on the project saying a good number of trees would have to face the axe if the project had to be realised.
It may be recalled that Kamath, during a couple of meetings convened at the Zilla Panchayat in the recent past, held Lobo as the reason for the project not seeing the light of the day.
Taking umbrage to this, Lobo charged Kamath with using environmentalists to get the project stalled to draw undue political mileage. He sought to know how a project, for which all necessary clearances had been obtained, could be brought to an abrupt halt.
“After Rs 1,79,190 was paid to the forest department for permission and compensation to fell small trees, 75% of the total work completed, tender for construction awarded and foundation stone for the project laid, How, would the project then not see the light of the day,” Lobo questioned. “The incumbent MLA is directly involved in putting my ambitious project on the backburner,” he alleged.
Lobo sought to know how much funds had Kamath, as MLA, brought to his constituency in the last nine months, adding the latter was not even successful in completing the projects sanctioned by the earlier government in the state.
Lobo also threatened to file defamation case against Kamath, if the sitting MLA continued to level baseless allegations against him.
The issue mainly pertains to the construction of a township under Ashraya Project that intended to house 930 poor families, at Shaktinagar. Just as most of the paper work had been completed and the construction work was about to begin, environmentalists succeeded in getting a stay on the project saying a good number of trees would have to face the axe if the project had to be realised.
It may be recalled that Kamath, during a couple of meetings convened at the Zilla Panchayat in the recent past, held Lobo as the reason for the project not seeing the light of the day.
Taking umbrage to this, Lobo charged Kamath with using environmentalists to get the project stalled to draw undue political mileage. He sought to know how a project, for which all necessary clearances had been obtained, could be brought to an abrupt halt.
“After Rs 1,79,190 was paid to the forest department for permission and compensation to fell small trees, 75% of the total work completed, tender for construction awarded and foundation stone for the project laid, How, would the project then not see the light of the day,” Lobo questioned. “The incumbent MLA is directly involved in putting my ambitious project on the backburner,” he alleged.
Lobo sought to know how much funds had Kamath, as MLA, brought to his constituency in the last nine months, adding the latter was not even successful in completing the projects sanctioned by the earlier government in the state.
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