Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, August 10

Former mayor Sunil Jyoti and BJP councillor Sushil Kumar on Tuesday again attacked the municipal corporation alleging that a lot of corruption was going on in the civic body.

They said a tender had been passed for the road stretch from Maqsuda to Vidhipur railway lines at an estimated cost of over Rs 26 lakh, but a simple patchwork costing around Rs 50,000 would be suffice for it. Sushil Kumar went live from his social media official page where he showed to his followers and Jalandhar residents that there was not much work needed on the road for which a whopping sum of over Rs 26 lakh would be spent by the MC. “I want to know who made the estimate and who will be benefited from it. We smell a scam in it. We would demand a probe into the matter by the Vigilance Bureau,” said Sushil Kumar. He said he could not find even a single pothole on the road so what was the need to float a tender for the same. “I challenge MC officials to show me that the road needs patchwork by spending this amount,” the BJP councillor added.

During the live session, to prove his point, Kumar also asked an auto-rickshaw driver if the road where he commuted daily needed to be repaired at a cost of over Rs 26 lakh. Sunil Jyoti and Kumar also raised another point and said Jalandhar had always remained a sports hub. “We wanted Burlton Park to be developed as a sports hub where there could be best swimming facilities apart from other games, but now, there is a proposal to construct a police chowki, school, etc. Burlton Park was not meant for these things,” they said.