Kanpur: The house of Kanpur Municipal Corporation (KMC) witnessed bizarre moments on Monday when Samajwadi Party corporator Suhail Ahmad entered the house wearing shoes garland.
Protesting against the inert attitude of the KMC officers towards development work, Ahmad said that the time had come when the public would beat corporators for their failure in completing development works. To save himself from public ire, he wore the shoes garland, he added.
The corporators have been complaining since long about the indifferent attitude of KMC officials in ensuring development of the city. Even mayor Pramila Pandey had questioned the working of the KMC officials.
Throughout the house session the corporators kept on raising their problems and targeted the officials. The last session of the house had to be suspended without making any decision on any core issue.
As soon as the house proceedings began around 11 am, the corporators raised the issue of the city’s development. Some corporators staged a sit-in in protest against the working of executive engineer of zone-4 Puneet Ojha terming him as a careless officer. The situation could be controlled when the mayor asked Ojha to leave the house.
The corporators alleged that some engineers were playing games in road cutting. Corporators Suhail Ahmad, Kamal Shukla, Naveen Pandit, Arpit Yadav and Manoj Pandey said that the officials were giving road cutting permission zone-wise and ward-wise which was absolutely wrong.
Also taking a potshot at the officials of the district administration for their careless attitude cited the incident in which the mayor got injured in stone pelting by a crowd in Chakeri area but the police had not registered an FIR so far. The corporators demanded the police to register an FIR in the incident.
The mayor interfered in the matter and said now she would sit in each zone for some time. “The officials should act and respond decently with corporators and the public”, she added.