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The Thiruvananthapuram Corporation connected Friday witnessed protests some wrong and extracurricular the assembly implicit the transportation of 3 gross officials who imposed good connected the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) territory committee for putting up flex boards and banners successful the metropolis without support of the civic assemblage up of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sojourn past week.
Corporation employees affiliated to near unions including Kerala NGO Union, Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation Workers’ Association and the Kerala Municipal and Corporation Staff Union (KMCSU), took retired a protestation march against the BJP-ruled medication and Mayor V.V. Rajesh, alleging that the actions against the officials were politically motivated. While a gross serviceman was shifted to the station of assembly secretary, a superintendent and a gross inspector were transferred to zonal offices.
The gross officials had issued a announcement for a good of ₹19.97 lakh to the BJP Thiruvananthapuram territory committee for putting up flex boards and banners of PM Modi and different leaders without the Corporation’s support during his sojourn to the superior past week. The placement of immoderate of these flex boards had besides invited disapproval from commuters arsenic good arsenic connected societal media. While immoderate boards were placed connected constrictive medians with parts of them extending onto the roadworthy and posing information to motorists, others were placed connected footpaths wholly blocking the way, forcing pedestrians to locomotion connected the road. Though the announcement was issued connected January 23, the BJP territory committee has not yet replied to it.
“The gross officials are bound by Court orders to contented notices against those who enactment up flex boards without support and by causing obstruction connected nationalist roads. Else, they volition beryllium held answerable,” said Kannammoola Vijayan, General Secretary of the Municipal Workers’ Association.
When asked astir the transfers during a property conference, the Mayor said that it was a prerogative of the administration.
Later successful the afternoon, the assembly gathering besides witnessed heated debates implicit the issue, with Left Democratic Front (LDF) parliamentary enactment person S.P. Deepak accusing the medication of taking revenge connected the officials. CPI(M) councillor Vanchiyoor Babu said that the Mayor’s bureau was functioning similar the BJP’s office. Mr. Rajesh said that the gross serviceman was shifted owed to lax taxation collections. He said that an all-party gathering volition beryllium convened to get astatine an knowing connected the show of flex boards.
