English Bazaar deadlock is on

Statesman News Service

MALDA, March 22. — The civic body chief of English Bazaar Municipality, Mr Nihar Ranjan Ghosh, today carried out his office work on the veranda, after the Opposition councillors, who have been agitating against him since the past three days, prevented him from entering his chamber. Out of the 25 members, 14 of them staged a dharna in front of the chairman’s chamber today demanding the removal of the civic body chief from his seat. The chairman’s removal case came up today in the Calcutta High Court and the Opposition councillors have decided to meet the district magistrate to take appropriate action on the issue based on the judgment of the High Court. It may be recalled that the CPI-M backed chairman had appealed to the court against the no-confidence motion of the Opposition, which was declared as valid, by the court earlier. The ruling councillors said that the next date of hearing is 22 April and they will be getting one month to run the board. But, the Opposition councillors have claimed that they will call a meeting to remove the chairman as early as possible.