Mumbai: The civic body commission took a serious cognizance of BJP’s objection regarding last minutes additional provision of Rs. 650 crore in BMC’s budget, and scrapped it. The Standing Committee chairman had announced to make the additional changes in the budget to which BJP had taken a strong objection and wrote to the Commissioner against it.
BJP raised several questions regarding the need for the changes at this stage when the BMC would soon have delimitation and new corporators would be elected. It will be the right of the new house for taking a call regarding any modifications in the budget. BJP group leader Prabhakar Shinde wrote a letter to the Commissioner asking him to scrap the proposed modifications.
Referring to the recent raids on Standing Committee chairman Yashwant Jadhav’s house, BJP’s Standing Committee member Bhalchandra Shirsat took attacked on Shiv Sena. He questioned, “Was it (scrapping the modification) because of the letter by the group leader or raids conducted?”
On February 3, BMC’s budget for the year 2022-23 was presented before the Standing Committee. It then clarified that the additional provision of funds was made at the Committee level.
The election dates for the civic body is yet to be declared. It would get dissolved on March 7. The delimitation process for the BMC wards before the election is also incomplete. “In such a situation how did the additional provision of Rs 650 crore was made in the budget and for which work? Who recommended these works? Making such a provision without listing the works is nothing but exploiting taxpayers’ money,” Prabhakar Shinde said. These provisions are made for the benefit of the certain contractors, he had alleged in the letter.
“We will not allow any corruption in BMC. BJP always works for the welfare of the Mumbaikars,” Shinde said.
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