Anil Masih moment all over again: Chandigarh MP Manish Tewari

Chandigarh MP and former Union Minister Manish Tewari strongly condemned the manhandling of AAP and Congress councillors in the MC House by what he said deploying policemen masquerading as marshals. “It was the Anil Masih moment all over again,” he quipped.

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Tewari said the AAP and Congress councillors were demanding that the Chandigarh Administration should transfer 30% of the Rs 5,800 crore that it gets from the Union budget to the MC. This amount was determined by the respective Finance Commissions, including the Delhi Finance Commission for the proper civic upkeep of Chandigarh or repair of the V-3 roads. But, they were brutalised at the behest of the powers-that-be in the most authoritarian manner possible.

“Why doesn’t the Chandigarh Administration take responsibility for repairing the V-6 roads along which a large number of people reside?” the senior Congress parliamentarian questioned, while adding that the V-3 roads are where the cavalcades move. Tewari said, “This spells the death knell of democracy.”