Statesman News Service
MALDA, Feb 25: Contract labourers of English Bazaar Municipality's ( EBM) conservancy department today staged agitation demanding punishment of culprits who had beaten them during their cleaning job at ward no. 4 yesterday. The CPI-M zonal committee secretary led the labourers to stage demonstration in front of the EBM office. Embarrassed civic body chief Mr Narendranath Tiwari held an urgent meeting inviting the CPI-M leader and councillors today to manage the situation. Interestingly, a group of youth allegedly beat up the labourers engaged in cleaning drains in ward no. 4 and drove them out yesterday. It may be noted that the ward no. 4 is under the control of the congress councillor Mr Ashok Saha, who was elected from this ward and became incharge of conservancy department of the EBM. It is learnt that he is reluctant to oversee his department at present after receiving show cause notice from the district Congress high command recently. The district Congress leaders had to issue a show cause notice to him because he was one of the seven rebel councillors who had expressed ‘no confidence’ against the Congress chairman of the board. Due to the non cooperation of the rebel councillors the Congress led civic board was not in a position to adopt resolution when they had boycotted the board of councillors’ meeting twice. It was also learnt that people were not satisfied with the job of the labourers engaged in cleaning the drains. Labourers pull out dirt and mud from the drains but dump it on the road sides for two days and do not make an effort to clean-up the surroundings.
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