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| Mayor, Deputy Mayor play politics while people suffer | | Srinagar's sanitation goes for a six as SMC employees go on strike | |  Jehangir Rashid
Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jan 3: Tussle between Mayor and Deputy Mayor of the summer capital of the state has taken a toll on the sanitation services since the employees including the sanitation staff of Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) is on strike for the past three days.
The employees of the SMC are on strike against the incident that took place on Monday when an employee was manhandled by a female councilor in the chamber of Mayor, Junaid Azim Mattu. The female councilor belonging to Indian National Congress accused the Mayor of sexual harassment.
The female councilor Shaheena Bhat has got the support of Deputy Mayor Sheikh Imran in this whole issue. The tussle between Mattu and Imran has led to a situation due to which heaps of garbage were seen littered on the important roads, streets, lanes and by-lanes of the Srinagar city.
In the Lal Chowk area considered to be nerve centre of Srinagar city mounds of garbage were seen at many places. The presence of garbage in form of mini-mountains has mocked at the claims of Srinagar Mayor and Deputy Mayor that both of them stand for the cleanliness of the summer capital of Jammu & Kashmir.
The SMC employees demanded action against the female councilor who along with her associated allegedly carried out attack on one of the senior employees who is at present working as Personal Assistant (PA) to the Mayor. The employees demanded stern action against the persons who carried out attack on senior employee of the corporation.
Due to the verbal attack launched by the SMC employees the Deputy Mayor has been forced to issue an appeal to them to end the strike at the earliest. Imran was forced to make the appeal since the female councilor belongs to the party that supported him to become Deputy Mayor of Srinagar.
The employees have said that both the Mayor and Deputy Mayor are equidistant to them and they don't support or oppose either of them. They said that the employees should be allowed to work without any interference from the people who got elected to the different wards of Srinagar following the municipal elections in October last year.
It would be in place to mention here that the female councilor said that she has been harassed by the Mayor and his coterie not once but on many occasions. She alleged that her estimate of 25 lakhs for carrying out development works in her ward was concealed by the Mayor. She said that Mattu made it clear to her that the estimate would be cleared once she accepts the 'sexual' offer.
The councilor alleged that the Mayor and his PA manhandled and abused her in presence of many other councilors today saying that her pheran was torn apart. She alleged that Mattu hurled choicest of invectives on her despite the fact that many of her colleagues were present there.
However, Mattu said that the accusations leveled by the female councilor are baseless, concocted and motivated. He said the councilor is the age of his mother and has children as old as him. He said that the councilor made the accusations at the behest of Deputy Mayor. |
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