Mangalore: MCC wound up its monthly meeting of review of on going works, within an hour on July 29,Friday,after the Congress Opposition members created a commotion over Mayor Praveen Anchan’s move of granting approval to 60 development works to be taken up through State Finance Commission grants.
The hurriedly ended meet did not discuss any matter on local common man’s welfare. The uproar on grants took 45 minutes, and the balance 15 minutes were wasted for empty discussions.
The Congress Corporators alleged discrimination in allocating SFS funds to their development works (in their words).
The grants should have been equally distributed in all 60 words.
Chief Whip Sudhir Shetty Kannur read the decisions taken up as per Agenda ,but former Mayor K. Ashraf tore up his copy of the agenda. Meanwhile, MCC Commissioner K.N.Vijay Prakash who was leaving on transfer, as CEO to ZP(DK), was not given a courtesy farewell by the councilors in the heat of pell-mell.