Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 16

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has demanded the resignation of Mayor Ravi Kant Sharma and state BJP president Arun Sood over the suspension of afternoon water supply.

A leader of AAP, Chander Mukhi Sharma, said: “On the one hand, in the name of the Smart City project, the Municipal Corporation (MC) plans to take a loan of Rs500 crore to provide 24-hours water supply to the city, while on the other hand, the MC has suspended the afternoon water supply in order to save money. If the MC only wants to save money, then why crores of rupees are being spent on 24-hour water supply plans that, too, by taking a loan from the other country.”

Sharma said owing to the wrong policies of the BJP, the burden on common people was increasing. By discontinuing the afternoon supply, the MC would save Rs14 crore annually, he added.