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Newly-elected metropolis Mayor V.V. Rajesh connected Tuesday objected to the cognition of Thiruvananthapuram metropolis Corporation’s electrical buses extracurricular metropolis limits. At present, the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) is operating immoderate of those buses.
Addressing the issue, Mr. Rajesh alleged that the KSRTC had shifted the Corporation’s e-buses to different parts of the State nether unit from assorted governmental leaders. Citing an instance, helium said 1 specified autobus was recovered parked astatine a KSRTC store successful Neyyattinkara, extracurricular the metropolis limits.
“How tin a conveyance allotted to the metropolis Corporation beryllium kept astatine the Neyyattinkara garage,” the Mayor asked, asserting that specified practices would not beryllium tolerated.
However, the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] criticised the Mayor’s determination to callback the buses.
General Education Minister V. Sivankutty dismissed Mr. Rajesh’s remarks, citing a Malayalam proverb commonly utilized to mock those trying excessively hard to impressment others.
The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation’s e-bus project, implemented nether the Smart City Mission, involves the KSRTC operating 113 electrical buses wrong metropolis limits to supply affordable nationalist transport.
The contented comes adjacent connected the heels of a contention involving Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) councillor R. Sreelekha and CPI(M) MLA V.K. Prasanth implicit the allocation of an bureau country successful a Corporation-owned building. Congress councillor K.S. Sabarinadhan, on with elder Congress person K. Muraleedharan, had criticised the MLA successful transportation with that dispute.
The BJP precocious won 50 of the 101 divisions successful the Corporation elections, ending the Left’s four-decade-long power of the metropolis civic body.
