Shiv Sena corporator Hemangi Worlikar asks maximum number of questions for the second time in a row
It's the kind of silence that cannot be termed golden. Of the 227 city corporators, 19 did not raise even a single query during ward committee meetings held in 2013. Within this 19, seven corporators went an extra mile, rather year, in creating another record – by not asking a single question for two consecutive years.
Even deputy mayor Mohan Mithbaokar was ahead only by a notch. He asked one question during the R-central ward committee meetings.
Civic improvement committee chairperson and BJP corporator Ujjwala Modak, Ajanta Yadav, Faiyaz Khan (Congress), Shweta Rane and Vishwas Shinde (Shiv Sena), Lalita Anamalai (Independent) and Jyotsna Parmar (Samajwadi Party) were those who preferred to keep their mouth shut.
Independent corporaotr Hanifa Bi, who passed away last year, also did not ask a single query.
Shiv Sena's Worli corporator, Hemangi Worlikar, took the crown for asking the maximum number of questions for the second time in a row. This time, though, she asked only 23 queries, against the 27 in 2012.
Party colleague and Kurla corporator Anuradha Pednekar put forth issues in her constituency 21 times before the 'L' ward committee meeting last year. Maharashtra Navnirman Sena corporator Sudhir Jadhav (20 queries), Independent councillor Deepak Hande (20), Congress's Yogesh Bhoir (17) and Shiv Sena's Anant Nar (16) were among the top five 'questioning' representatives.
BJP corporator Ujjwala Modak, who figured among those who didn't ask a question at all, however, did speak about why she did not speak.
"I don't wait for the ward committee meeting, held once in a month, to resolve public issues. I go to the K-East (Andheri) ward office every day and get the problems fixed," was her logic.
Worlikar said it was necessary for a public representative to raise local problems. "That is why they elect us for. One has to raise issues of the ward and pursue municipal authorities to get them solved. If we don't do that for five years, then we being public representatives are of no use," Worlikar reacted.
No marks for guessing who are useful and who are useless.
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