Residents seek cancellation of nominations

Harshraj Singh

Tribune News Service

LUDHIANA, February 17

Infuriated over defacement by candidates contesting the MC elections, residents are signing an online petition, seeking cancellation of the nomination of candidates responsible for defacing the city.

Let’s Clean Ludhiana, a city-based NGO, has started an online signature petition, 'Cancel nomination of MC candidates who deface the city', on Change.org and it is being shared by people on Twitter as well as facebook. Members of the NGO said: "Are these candidates (who deface the city) worth electing as municipal councillors?"

The petition reads: “In the recent past, we have seen that the candidates nominated for the election to the Ludhiana MC blatantly flouted the law by defacing our public and private properties. If they are intentionally violating The Punjab Prevention of Defacement of Property Act, 1997, that they are supposed to protect and implement, what good can we expect from them in chair.”

The petition further reads: “We elect them as our representatives to give us a clean city, free from defacement and with hygienic living conditions. Now that the MC elections are scheduled for February 24, we are anticipating the candidates to again deface our city. Thus we appeal to the Ludhiana Administration to cancel the nomination of any candidate of the MC elections who defaces a single wall of the city.”

Maneet Dewan of Let’s Clean Ludhiana said: “We have so far filed 700 such complaints of defacement with photographs, location and details of defaulters but action is never taken against any defaulter. The MC should register an FIR against the violators,” he said.