Statesman News Service
MALDA, June 28: After waiting for nearly a month, Mr Narendra Nath Tiwari of the Congress was sworn in as the new chairman of the English Bazaar Municipality, at a simple function here today. The Director of Local Bodies had sent a letter to the Malda district administration yesterday, instructing it to take the initiative to organise Mr Tiwari’s swearing-in ceremony. The instruction came a day after the Congress, Trinamul Congress and the BJP councillors of the municipality staged a demonstration in front of the district magistrate’s office to protest against the delay in holding the ceremony.The agitating councillors had also burnt the Malda district magistrate, Mr Abhijit Choudhuri, in effigy yesterday to voice their concern. The councillors had threatened to launch an indefinite strike from tomorrow to press the district administration to enable Mr Tiwari to assume office. Even the state minister for municipal affairs, Mr Asok Bhattacharya, discussed the matter at a meeting of all civic body chiefs and executive officers of local bodies in Kolkata yesterday. The Congress councillor of EBM, Mr Ashis Kundu, had raised the matter in the meeting. Mr Tiwari was elected chairman of EBM on 3 June, defeating the CPI-M-backed Independent chairman, Mr NR Ghosh. His swearing-in ceremony had been delayed for unknown reasons. #
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