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Kusam Yadav successful Jaipur, Tuesday. (Express Photo by Rohit Jain Paras)
A time aft Congress councilor Munesh Gurjar was suspended arsenic Jaipur Municipal Corporation – Heritage Mayor by the Bhajan Lal Government, 8 Congress councilors connected Tuesday pledged their enactment to the saffron party, thereby clearing the way for the assignment of autarkic councillor Kusum Yadav arsenic the acting mayor.
According to an bid of the section self-government department, Yadav’s tenure volition beryllium for 2 months. “It volition beryllium my precedence to enactment connected zero-tolerance argumentation towards corruption and to marque the practice municipal corp neat and clean,” Yadav told reporters aft the appointment.
During the councillor elections, the BJP had denied a summons to Kusum Yadav aft which she contested the predetermination arsenic an autarkic and was elected a councillor. However, aft winning the election, Yadav supported the BJP.
Kusum Yadav, who is serving arsenic a councillor successful the Municipal Corporation for the 2nd time, is the woman of BJP idiosyncratic Ajay Yadav.
According to the 8 councillors, astir of them were upset by the moving benignant of Munesh Gurjar due to the fact that of which they were successful interaction with the BJP for the past 3 months and connected Tuesday, they yet pledged their support.
The councilors who person pledged their enactment to the BJP see those from Civil Lines, Adarsh Nagar and Kishanpole Assembly constituencies. They besides submitted a signed missive to the BJP authorities president Madan Rathore and UDH curate Jhabar Singh Kharra which mentioned that they were supporting the BJP unconditionally.
“We person appointed an acting politician until we take a imperishable 1 oregon if the elections are conducted for the municipality bodies. This is conscionable a measurement successful the close absorption arsenic improvement of the metropolis was hampered by corruption,” said Rathore.
Meanwhile, Congress person and erstwhile Civil Lines MLA Pratap Singh Khachariyawas said that the BJP should person appointed a Congress councillor arsenic an acting mayor.
“In 2021, erstwhile Somya Gurjar, BJP politician of JMC-Greater was suspended, we made a BJP councillor Sheel Dhabai arsenic acting politician of Jaipur. BJP should person made a Congress councillor an acting politician for JMC-Heritage arsenic good but they decided to bash inexpensive politics. Moreover, rumours of the Congress councillors supporting the BJP are not true. Our councillors are with america adjacent if BJP tries to dispersed rumours. In the adjacent elections BJP volition itself spot the triumph of different Congress mayor,” said Khachariyawas.
The councillors who person pledged their enactment to the BJP are — Manoj Mudgal of Ward 35, Uttam Sharma of Ward 49, Jyoti Chauhan of Ward 46, Sushila Devi of Ward 63, Arvind Mithi of Ward 71, Mohammad Zakaria of Ward 65, Paras Jain Ward of 80, Santosh Kar of Ward 78.
Councillor of Ward 35, Manoj Mudgal said determination was truthful overmuch corruption during Munesh clip that they decided to enactment BJP.
“We were suffering for a agelong time. Due to rampant corruption successful the city, improvement enactment was halted by Munesh. She had taken the corp successful her power owed to which she did not signifier immoderate moving committee successful the JMC-Heritage. All these things person forced the Congress councillors to enactment BJP,” said Manoj Mudgal.
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