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Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] MLA V.K. Prasanth has decided to vacate his bureau astatine Sasthamangalam successful Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and displacement to Maruthankuzhy successful an evident effort to enactment an extremity to the ongoing contention involving recently elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillor R. Sreelekha, who has besides occupied a information of the office.
Soon aft getting elected, Ms. Sreelekha had demanded Mr. Prasanth to vacate his office, which helium has been occupying for the past 7 years. She aboriginal acceptable up her bureau successful the abstraction allocated for the councillor from the Sasthamangalam ward.
Mr. Prasanth told The Hindu that helium did not privation the contention to resistance on. “Is it not amended if I telephone it a time and determination my office?” helium asked. The MLA said helium is shifting to a spot which is “convenient for the hundreds of radical who sojourn maine daily” for assorted matters.
Another CPI(M) person said the enactment did not privation the BJP successful the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation “setting the governmental agenda” successful the territory up of the Assembly elections. “Nor did the CPI(M) accord a communicative vantage to the BJP, which has sought to make the content that the MLA was someway surviving rent-free oregon rent-subsidised successful the Corporation building,” helium said.
The MLA had earlier expressed interest that the contention implicit the bureau was being utilized to dispersed mendacious claims against him successful the nationalist sphere. He had refuted claims that MLAs were being provided a rental allowance and enactment retired his wage gaffe successful the nationalist domain. Mr. Prasanth said helium had rented the office, located centrally successful his constituency, truthful that his bureau would stay easy accessible to the wide public. He had besides paid rent till March 31, 2026 to the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, which owns the building.
He said the building, which besides houses the wellness ellipse bureau of the Corporation, was renovated during his word arsenic Mayor from 2015-19. The hallway wrong the gathering was partitioned to location the Vattiyurkavu MLA arsenic good arsenic the Sasthamangalam councillor’s office. The erstwhile 2 councillors, including LDF councillor Bindu Sreekumar and BJP councillor Madhusoodhanan Nair, had occupied the abstraction allocated for them.
