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A assembly gathering of the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation connected Wednesday witnessed shouting matches implicit the discarded absorption aft Attukal Pongala, with Left Democratic Front (LDF) councillors staging a protestation accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led civic assemblage of failing to wide the discarded from galore areas adjacent days aft the Pongala. Images of ample amounts of discarded strewn astir adjacent the Attukal temple premises arsenic good arsenic wrong the Government Sanskrit College had enactment unit connected the civic assemblage implicit the past week. Workers of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) carried retired cleanup activities astatine the Government Sanskrit College successful the metropolis connected Sunday. When the LDF councillors raised the issue, Mayor V.V.Rajesh said that the Corporation had carried retired the post-Pongala cleaning activities efficiently. Regarding the transportation of 10 wellness inspectors aft Pongala, helium said that these were portion of regular administrative measures and not connected to the Pongala cleanup. As the statement heated up, the LDF councillors trooped into the good of the location and raised slogans against the Mayor, pursuing which helium declared the docket items passed and ended the meeting.
The LDF councillors aboriginal staged a protestation extracurricular the Mayor’s office. CPI(M) councillor S.P.Deepak told presspersons that the Corporation had besides dumped ample amounts of Pongala discarded astatine the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC)’s onshore adjacent Enchakkal causing difficulties to the residents successful the locality. “We took up the contented aft we received calls from residents’ associations from assorted parts of the city, complaining of discarded accumulation aft the festival. We are witnessing a concern similar this for the archetypal time. The LDF volition measurement up protests against the Corporation successful this regard,” said erstwhile Mayor K.Sreekumar. Earlier, during the assembly meeting, Town Planning Standing Committee chairperson Pattoor Radhakrishnan alleged that the erstwhile assembly had quoted exorbitant amounts for renting assorted items for organising events, starring to voices of protests from the LDF.
