Trust vote: Observer skips Talwara MC meeting
Our Correspondent
Talwara, January 7
A meeting of Talwara Municipal Council was organised on January 7 at 11 am in the context of the no-confidence motion related to the removal of the president of the Municipal Council. However, Mukerian SDM Navneet Kaur Bal, who was appointed as observer, failed to show up for the meeting. Duty magistrate Arvind Salwan; Naib Tehsildar Gursewak Chand, EO Simran Dhindsa and nine out of total 13 councilors attended the meeting.
Due to the absence of the official, the meeting had to be adjourned once again. Notably, the meeting was earlier to be held on January 4 but had to be postponed due to the non-arrival of duty magistrate and observer on that day.
According to a letter issued from the office of Talwara Municipal Council to DC, Hoshiarpur, today’s meeting had to be postponed due to the absence of the appointed observer. Now, the meeting will be held on January 10 at 3pm on the office premises of the council.
In this regard, a letter has been sent by EO Simran Dhindsa to DC, Hoshiarpur, council president, all councillors and Dasuya MLA Arun Dogra which reads: “On the basis of Deputy Commissioner Hoshiarpur’s letter number 468/MA-2 dated 4-1-2022, on behalf of the no-confidence motion brought by councillors municipal council Talwara, a meeting was held on January 7 at 11 am. In this meeting Councillor Surinder Kaur from Ward No. 1 of Municipal Council, Munish Chadda from Ward No. 4, Taranjit Singh from Ward No. 6, Suman Dua from Ward No. 7, Vikas Chandra from Ward No. 8, Parminder Kaur from Ward No. 10, Shally Anand from Ward No. 11, Deepak Arora from Ward No. 12 and Councilor Joginder Pal from Ward No. 13 were present. While councillor from Ward No. 3 and council head Monika Sharma, Pawan Sharma from Ward No. 2, Kalavati from Ward No. 9 and (BJP) councilor Sunita Devi from Ward No. 5 did not attend the meeting”.
DC, Hoshiarpur, had appointed SDM, Mukerian, Navneet Kaur Bal to attend the meeting as observer. She did not attend this meeting as she had to go to attend a meeting in Hoshiarpur held by DC, Hoshiarpur, regarding Covid-19. Due to this the council meeting had to be adjourned.
