BJP raises questions over illegal hoardings welcoming Mayor
Throughout the city, huge hoardings and banners are put up to congratulate newly elected Mayor Inderjit Kaur from AAP. Raising questions over ‘illegal’ hoardings and banners, BJP leaders said who would pay expenses as many of these were put up in areas, where tenders for the hoardings were not allotted to any company.
Parminder Mehta, a BJP leader who was a Congress MC councillor in the past, said AAP gives an impression that it was a common man’s party, attached to the grass-roots level and it was totally clean.
“If this is so, the new Mayor should have asked everyone to remove banners and hoardings welcoming her. The MC authorities should have asked the tehbazari wing to remove illegal hoardings and banners. Is it not a VIP culture, where the common man, shopkeepers, traders and other councillors have put up huge banners and hoardings to welcome the new Mayor? It’s an obligation where all of them will seek favours, later,” he said.
At the same time, one of the officials of the MC said tenders were allotted to firms to put banners and hoardings in designated areas. “But these are put up throughout city areas, even in places where no tenders are allotted, such as Daresi, Haibowal and other areas. To oblige the newly elected councillors and the Mayor, the hoardings and posters are put up in many other areas too. In designated areas, the company can provide permission to anyone but areas where tenders are not allotted, these will be considered illegal,” the official said.
Meanwhile, MC Commissioner Aditya Dachalwal said: “Most of the hoardings in the city are legal whose tenders were allotted to a company but if any illegal hoarding comes to our notice, we will get the same removed soon.”