Civic body chief to hold another councillors' meet

Statesman News Service

MALDA, Dec 24: The Congress-led English Bazaar civic body chief ~ Mr Narendranath Tiwari ~ will hold another councillors’ meeting shortly to pass its own budget. The Mr Tiwari had to adjourn the board of councillors meeting on Saturday when the seven rebel councillors and other 12 Left Front councillors decided to boycott it. This is the second time that the both groups of councillors had not attended the board's monthly meeting. “We will try to pass the budget if at least nine councillors are present”, Mr Tiwari said. The CPI-M councillors alleged that these seven members have been trying to press the civic body chief and his associate councillors to keep the interest of a contractor, who had been assigned to build a market complex during the tenure of Mr KN Choudhury as civic body chief.Seven councillors, all followers of English Bazaar Congress MLA Mr K N Choudhury, have not been cooperating with the civic body chief for the last two months. Though the Congress district president Mrs Rubi Noor started dialogue with them twice, they decided to stay away from the meetings. A group of rebel councillors today held a meeting with Union minister for I&B, Mr PR Das Munshi, regarding this issue when he arrived in English Bazaar town this morning. The Congress leaders and Mr Tiwari had earlier lodged complaints with the district president and Mr Das Munshi against these seven rebel councillors. Mr Tiwari, however, seems positive about the next meeting and hopes to pass the budget according to the Municipal Act.