Cong councillors call for special House meeting, write to Mayor

Chandigarh, April 10

In view of the Covid-19 cases, Congress councillors have called for an urgent special House meeting of the Municipal Corporation through video-conferencing.

In a letter to Mayor Raj Bala Malik, Devinder Singh Babla, Leader of Opposition, Gurbax Rawat, Ravinder Kaur Gujral, Sheela Phool Singh and Satish Kainth, all Congress councillors, stated that “There are several issues pertaining to residents across different strata of society, including daily wage labourers, dhobis, garbage collectors, safai karamcharis, rickshaw pullers and government employees. Shopkeepers, local businesses, traders and MSMEs have suffered huge losses. If we start collating the total economic loss in the city itself, the amount will sum up to several hundreds of crores”.

“As an elected representative and a responsible citizen, I consider this as my duty to make an appeal to you to address the issue of Covid-19 and request you to kindly call for an urgent special House meeting via video-conferencing with a single-point agenda on how to fight the virus in the city as several departments from the MC are engaged in this fight,” said Babla. He said councillors should be made part of the implementation plans in fight against the Covid-19.

“The House should pass a resolution and contribute towards fighting Covid-19 and also take into account how we can contribute financially to Indian Red Cross Society, UT, and further strengthen the capability of the Administration,” he said.

MP Kirron Kher should also be a part of the videoconference meeting being an ex-officio member of the MC, he said. — TNS