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SILIGURI, 29 JUNE: At a time when the Congress and Trinamul Congress have decided to form the Siliguri Municipal Corporation board jointly, the Darjeeling district Left Front has decided against contesting the mayoral election.
Addressing a Press conference, the leader of the Opposition in SMC, Mr Nurul Islam today said that the 17 LF councillors would not take part in the mayoral election and would not even extend support to any other political party.
Mr Islam said that they had supported the Congress candidate, Ms Gangotri Datta, when she was contesting the mayoral election against another Trinamul candidate in October 2009, following requests from the Congress camp.
“The Darjeeling (plains) and Jalpaiguri districts presidents, Mr Shankar Malakar and Biswaranjan Sarkar, respectively, had sought support in a written agreement from us in the interest of development of the SMC. We had extended our support to end the stalemate over the mayor election,” Mr Nurul said. “We will act as constructive Opposition in the SMC following mandate of the Siliguri people. The LF leaders took the decision yesterday evening because we have only 17 councillors out of 47, whereas the alliance has 30,” Mr Islam said.
Criticising the performance of the Congress-led SMC board in the last two years, Mr Islam asked why the deputy mayor and nine other office bearers suddenly submitted resignation following the mayor's decision.
“In the interest of the people, the deputy mayor must have run the board till mayoral elections, following state Municipal Corporation Act 2006 (under section 43),” Mr Islam said.
The RSP Darjeeling district secretary, Mr Binay Chakraborty said: “Both the Congress and the Trinamul Congress could not keep their commitments when they had begged votes from the people despite their leaders’ including union ministers of state and MPs assurance during the election campaign.”
Mr Chakraborty said: “Both the Congress and the Trinamul Congress could not bring proper development in Siliguri due to their squabbling over the rights of mayor's chair in the last two years. When the developmental programmes were stalled owing to the recently concluded Assembly election, the Siliguri mayor too left the corporation in a critical moment when common people were facing various problems."
Mr Chakraborty added: “The then railway minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, had announced here that they would not make alliance with Congress in the corporation. But we cannot understand why she took the decision suddenly suspending municipal services to the people for at least two months.”
SILIGURI, 29 JUNE: At a time when the Congress and Trinamul Congress have decided to form the Siliguri Municipal Corporation board jointly, the Darjeeling district Left Front has decided against contesting the mayoral election.
Addressing a Press conference, the leader of the Opposition in SMC, Mr Nurul Islam today said that the 17 LF councillors would not take part in the mayoral election and would not even extend support to any other political party.
Mr Islam said that they had supported the Congress candidate, Ms Gangotri Datta, when she was contesting the mayoral election against another Trinamul candidate in October 2009, following requests from the Congress camp.
“The Darjeeling (plains) and Jalpaiguri districts presidents, Mr Shankar Malakar and Biswaranjan Sarkar, respectively, had sought support in a written agreement from us in the interest of development of the SMC. We had extended our support to end the stalemate over the mayor election,” Mr Nurul said. “We will act as constructive Opposition in the SMC following mandate of the Siliguri people. The LF leaders took the decision yesterday evening because we have only 17 councillors out of 47, whereas the alliance has 30,” Mr Islam said.
Criticising the performance of the Congress-led SMC board in the last two years, Mr Islam asked why the deputy mayor and nine other office bearers suddenly submitted resignation following the mayor's decision.
“In the interest of the people, the deputy mayor must have run the board till mayoral elections, following state Municipal Corporation Act 2006 (under section 43),” Mr Islam said.
The RSP Darjeeling district secretary, Mr Binay Chakraborty said: “Both the Congress and the Trinamul Congress could not keep their commitments when they had begged votes from the people despite their leaders’ including union ministers of state and MPs assurance during the election campaign.”
Mr Chakraborty said: “Both the Congress and the Trinamul Congress could not bring proper development in Siliguri due to their squabbling over the rights of mayor's chair in the last two years. When the developmental programmes were stalled owing to the recently concluded Assembly election, the Siliguri mayor too left the corporation in a critical moment when common people were facing various problems."
Mr Chakraborty added: “The then railway minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, had announced here that they would not make alliance with Congress in the corporation. But we cannot understand why she took the decision suddenly suspending municipal services to the people for at least two months.”
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