Mumbai
Feelers to NCP Reiterating Thackeray senior words, Uddhav said that he was keen to join hands with NCP chief Sharad Pawar. “Efforts should be made from both sides and not just by us,” he told a Marathi daily. Pawar has in the past turned down Thackeray senior’s overtures saying that the Sena’s agenda different to that of his party.
Sanjeev Shivadekar AFTER BRINGING the Shiv Sena back to power in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), party executive president Uddhav Thackeray is already preparing his new corporators for good governance in the civic body.Realising that the Sena will have to deliver the goods to be in the good books of the people, Thackeray on Monday called a meeting of the corporators and gave them a run down on what he was expecting from the BMC.
He chalked out a five-point agenda for the Sena corporators.
¦ No unauthorized structure should be allowed by any corporator in his or her ward.
¦ Every corporator should publish his annual performance report and put it before the voters.
¦ The party’s central office should be informed about the work
done by each corporator.
¦ The corporators should be accessible to the people. A letter box should be kept in each ward for citizens to send their
complaints.
¦ There will be quarterly meetings of the corporators with the
party to review their performance.
Thackeray told HT that he would personally pay attention to the work done by his party’s elected representatives in the civic body. Uddhav’s estranged cousin Raj who formed Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has alleged that illegal encroachment in the city has been neglected by the BMC administration.
Raj has held the saffron alliance (SenaBJP) responsible for the surfacing of these new slums.
Uddhav will lead a party delegation for a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday. Singh is scheduled to visit the city that day. Senior party leader and spokesperson Manohar Joshi said: “The delegation will demand justice from the Center.” Mumbai gives approximately 70,000 crore as tax to the Centre and it should get a good amount in return, Joshi added.
sanjeev.shivadekar@hindustantimes.com
Publication : ht; section : metro; pg: 6; date: 6/2/07
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