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AMC board meet: Congress protests commissioner's partisan attitude, stages walkout

Opposition got agitated when Mukesh Kumar asked them to file RTI to get details

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Unruly scenes were witnessed in the AMC general board meeting on Friday, as Opposition councillors accused municipal commissioner Mukesh Kumar of acting like a member of the BJP, before staging a walkout. They later sat on protest outside the commissioner's office.

The trouble erupted a short while after the monthly general board meeting commenced and the ruling party announced names of chairmen of 12 AMC committees. As Mayor Bijal Patel went ahead with the meeting's agenda, Leader of Opposition Dinesh Sharma got up and demanded Zero Hour for a discussion about AMC's Medical Education Trust (MET). Sharma was joined by other Congress councillors, who fired a volley of questions regarding the Trust on the commissioner.

Visibly agitated, commissioner Mukesh Kumar told the Opposition councillors to put across all the questions. In his response, Kumar spoke at length about how MET had come into being, its funding sources, among other aspects. He also spoke about the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Medical Science and Research, the newly constructed hospital in VS Hospital, while ignoring more questions posed by senior Congress councillor Badruddin Shaikh.

What irked the Congress councillors was the commissioner asking them to file application under Right to Information (RTI) Act for any details.

Senior Congress councillor Taufiqkhan Pathan objected to the same and questioned whey all elected members are not being provided information regarding MET when AMC was paying around Rs200 crore every year to it. The commissioner responded by asking the Congress members to listen to the information he was sharing.

He did not respond to the opposition's queries about how the new hospital would benefit the poor. They also resorted to sloganeering during the meeting. The Congress councillors staged a walkout from the meeting objecting to the commissioner's rigid stance,and accused him of acting like a BJP councillor.

The councillors later staged sit-in protests outside his office. They demanded a requisition meeting of the general board, so that they could bring a motion to reprimand the commissioner for his partisan behaviour.

TROUBLE BREWING

The trouble erupted a short while after the monthly general board meeting commenced and the ruling party announced names of chairmen of 12 AMC committees

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