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Alleging large-scale irregularities successful appointments nether a Central assistance scheme, Kannur Corporation Mayor P. Indira has accused the Kerala authorities of attempting to “plunder immoderate remains from a sinking ship” successful its last days successful office, and demanded contiguous involution by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
Referring to a authorities bid dated March 26, 2026, the Mayor said the determination pertains to recruitment nether the strategy for Special Assistance to States for Capital Investment (SASCI) 2025-26. She alleged that the process progressive completing enactment procedures and preparing fertile lists for appointing method unit successful municipality section bodies and clusters connected a one-year declaration basis, incurring ₹27.16 lakh arsenic recruitment expenses.
According to the order, municipalities with a colonisation supra 1 lakh are required to lend ₹1.6 lakh each, portion those beneath 1 lakh indispensable supply ₹25,000 from their ain funds to the Center for Management Development. The Mayor pointed retired that this directive efficaciously shifts the fiscal load onto section bodies without anterior allocation of funds for the scheme.
Ms. Indira alleged that a full of 231 unit person been appointed to six Corporations and 87 municipalities crossed Kerala done “backdoor means”, bypassing established recruitment norms. She termed the determination a usurpation of the Model Code of Conduct and an encroachment connected the powers of section self-government institutions.
She further said that nary funds person been disbursed truthful acold to municipality section bodies for implementing these projects, adjacent arsenic the State authorities seeks fiscal contributions from them.
“This is simply a hopeless effort to propulsion in-favourite candidates into municipal institutions successful the last signifier of governance,” she alleged.
‘Development funds due’
The Mayor besides highlighted that the constitutionally mandated 3rd installment of improvement funds owed to section bodies has not yet been released, contempt the fiscal twelvemonth nearing its close.
She urged each municipalities to unite successful protestation against the determination and called upon the ECI to cancel the appointments, citing usurpation of predetermination norms.
Stating that the nationalist indispensable recognise the “true face” of what she described arsenic “organised loot”, Ms. Indira reiterated her request for contiguous corrective enactment “to safeguard the autonomy and fiscal stableness of section bodies.”
