Sena MLA gets garbage piled on contractor for waterlogging

MUMBAI: A Shiv Sena legislator on Saturday forced a nullah cleaning contractor to sit on a waterlogged road and asked workers to put garbage on him alleging that he didn’t do his job properly.
Talking to TOI, legislator Dilip Lande said that the contractor was assigned to clean the Sanjay Nagar nullah and to deploy three or four workers at the spot to ensure rainwater recedes quickly, but no one was present at the spot. He alleged that due to improper work, there was waterlogging on the road which caused inconvenience to locals.
“As a public representative of the area, the onus is also on me. I was trying to call him for two hours but he did not come. He later came to see me when I, with the help of some shivsainiks, had already started cleaning the drainage. I only made him realise his responsibility,” said Lande.
Pravin Darekar, the Opposition leader in the legislative council, criticised Lande for his act.
“I want to ask chief minister Uddhav Thackeray whether Lande’s act was proper?” Darekar said. A police officer from Ghatkopar police station said that no one has come to register the case against Sena MLA so far.