Mumbai: Despite having 83 corporators in BMC, BJP will get zero allocation from Mayor’s Rs 190 crore fund, Mayor from Shiv Sena defends

Despite having 83 corporators within the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the second-highest after Shiv Sena’s 97, the saffron occasion didn’t obtain a single paisa from the Mayor’s Rs 190 crores fund, a report revealed within the Times of India mentioned.
By distinction, Shiv Sena acquired a most of Rs 163 crores for its 97 corporators. Congress, with 29 corporators, bagged Rs 9 crores and the NCP obtained Rs 11 crores for its 8 corporators. Even Samajwadi Party, which has six corporators, managed to get Rs 4.75 crores from the Mayor’s fund. Corporators from different events and independents obtained Rs 2.25 crores.
BJP corporator Vinod Mishra lamented the partial behaviour meted out to the corporators belonging to the saffron occasion. He alleged that they’d been cheated as soon as once more and accused the Mayor of town of doing injustice to the individuals of town.
“We have been cheated once again. The Mayor’s Fund is not the private fund of the mayor. It is taxpayers’ money. The BJP’s 83 corporators have also been elected by the people of Mumbai and by not giving any money to BJP corporators, the mayor is doing injustice to these people,” Mishra mentioned.
Earlier, the BJP was snubbed with a paltry allocation from the BMC standing committee’s kitty. BJP had then obtained Rs 140 crores from the Rs 650 crore fund handed by the civic standing committee. Sena had then acquired a staggering Rs 340 crores.
Shiv Sena member and Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar defends zero allocation to BJP’s 83 corporators
However, Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar, who’s from Shiv Sena, mentioned she couldn’t allocate double funds to the BJP since they’d already acquired Rs 140 crores from the standing committee. But, Pednekar didn’t elaborate on how Shiv Sena corporators certified to obtain Rs 163 crores once they had been already given Rs 340 crores by the standing committee.
“The BJP has already received Rs 140 crore from the standing committee. So we can’t give them double funds through the Mayor’s fund. I have given funds to all group leaders and also to all corporators who gave request letters for funds,” Pednekar mentioned.
She additional alleged that when BJP was in energy within the state, it was offering funds solely to BJP MLAs and to not legislators from different events. However, right here too, Pednekar missed the truth that Shiv Sena had prolonged help to BJP whereas it was in energy from 2014 to 2019.
Standing committee chairperson Yashwant Jadhav was extra brazen in admitting prejudice in opposition to the BJP. He termed it as mayoral discretion to determine the allocation of funds given to corporators of various political events.
“There is a convention that funds are distributed as per the corporator strength of each party. But there is no such rule when allotting standing panel and Mayor’s funds; they are given as per the discretion of the panel chairperson and mayor, respectively,” Jadhav mentioned.
The civic administration had lower down on the standing committee’s modification fund within the funds to Rs 650 crore from final yr’s Rs 750 crores. The panel earmarks cash for corporators for work of their constituencies after which the final physique amends the funds additional, which is called Mayor’s fund.