‘BJP high command pulls up J&K BJP’
Arvind Sharma
Jammu Tawi, Nov 23: The civic body, Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC), has created a unique record by not calling the General House Meeting of the corporation since the last around a year, which, otherwise, is mandatory every month as per the laid down norms and the guidelines for the elected corporations.
Highly placed sources in the BJP informed that the party high command has taken a serious note of the matter and pulled up the J&K party unit for failing to call the General House Meeting of the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) since the last around a year since the first lockdown was imposed.
“The BJP high command is very annoyed over the concerned J&K party leaders for not for calling the General House Meeting of the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC),” they said.
“On the directions of the BJP high command, former deputy chief minister, and also the former Mayor of JMC, Kavinder Gupta, called an urgent meeting of the Jammu based leaders of the party a couple of days back and conveyed to them the message of the party high command,” a senior BJP leader informed the Northlines.
The concerned BJP leaders, the main being the Mayor, Chander Mohan Gupta, were told in the meeting to urgently call the General House Meeting of the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC), he said.
“If Parliament session and also assembly sessions in many states can be convened then what is the reason that JMC has not called the General House Meeting in around a year, the message of the party high command was conveyed to the J&K leaders,” they said.
It was agreed upon in the meeting that General House meeting of the JMC would most likely be called next month, he said.
Elected Corporators, chairmen of different committees of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC), Mayor of the corporation besides heads of different departments and various other officers and officials participate in the General House Meeting which is solely convened for the elected corporators for raising issues concerning people and seeking their redressal.
“This has adversely impacted various development works in the areas falling within the jurisdiction of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC),” sources said.
In the General House Meeting, the elected representatives raise different issues concerning people of their respective wards.
They also put forward the blueprint/proposal of different development works to be undertaken in their respective wards and seek their approval from the House.
Apart from this, the elected public representatives can also hold accountable the officers/officials of different departments for delay and negligence of other requisite components like quality etc in execution of different ongoing development works in their respective wards.
As per the protocol, the elected corporators and other concerned participants of the General House Meeting of the Jammu Municipal Corporation are informed days before the scheduled date of the meeting so that they could participate with full preparation.
An official letter is issued to all concerned regarding holding of the meeting.
However, no such communication has been conveyed to the Corporators, sources informed.
