Raipur (Jaseri). Under the People’s Representative Act in the Municipal Corporation, no contractor can work as an elected official in the Municipal Corporation or contest elections or any elected public representative cannot become a contractor in the Municipal Corporation and cannot participate in any kind of tender process. Under the Chhattisgarh Municipal Corporation Act, the elected public representative cannot take the benefit of any scheme of the Municipal Council or Municipal Corporation, directly or indirectly. An example of which was seen in the Municipal Corporation elections held last year.
The Congress Party candidate for the Mayor candidate of the Municipal Corporation is a contractor and he had also received his full payment from the Municipal Corporation, but while becoming a candidate, he forgot that according to the Municipal Corporation Act, Municipal Corporation Manual Act, no contractor or contractor is eligible to contest elections. Therefore, his nomination papers were also rejected, but what magic wand or authority does the former mayor possess that he has opened his councillor office in the Baijnathpara ward councillor office next to the public convenience centre which is built at a place known as the old Subhash stadium, next to the generic medicine medical store. The Baijnathpara councillor office was opened at a shop allotted by the Municipal Corporation. Despite being ineligible to become a Municipal Corporation beneficiary, the councillor office was opened at the public convenience centre built by the Municipal Corporation, which is against the rules.
An elected public representative cannot open his office even by taking it on rent. If it is taken on rent, then from whom? This is yet to be seen and only after an investigation by the Municipal Corporation will it come to light that in whose name and on whose order the above shop was allotted to whom. The former mayor, even though he still considers himself to be the Congress mayor, is doing as he pleases with the property of the Municipal Corporation. It is surprising that as no government rules are being followed, the BJP councillors and the Chairman and Mayor of the Municipal Corporation did not pay attention to this illegal act or it did not come to their notice, whereas most of the time all the officials pass through there. After getting the information under the Right to Information, social workers have given information about sending a complaint on the above subject to all the concerned places.
