Vashram Sagathiya and Komal Bharai had defected to AAP on April 14, 2022, halving the strength of Congress to just 2 in the 72-member general board of RMC, ruled by the BJP. They returned to Congress last year.
In their pleas, Sagathiya and Bharai had sought a stay on the July 10 notification of byelection to two seats of ward 15 of the RMC. As per the notification, polling for the seats was to be conducted on August 6 and counting of votes was on August 8.
Bhanuben Sorani, the nominal Leader of the Opposition at the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC), missed the meeting of the General Board held Saturday.
For the first time in the 50-year history of Rajkot Corporation, its seat has been snatched from the opposition. The Congress last ruled the corporation | BLiTZ
Bhanuben Sorani, leader of opposition in RMC
RAJKOT: While the party did not garner people’s trust to run the civic body, Rajkot citizens from across city’s 18 municipal wards seem to be finding the Congress more reliable as a problem solver. No wonder than that for all their civic woes, people reach out to the opposition party’s dashboard to give voice to their grievances after they receive no sympathy from the existing helpline.
While Congress managed to get only four seats out of 72 in the last municipal elections, its dashboard, which it had started started online dashboard from June 17, has been flooded with 122 complaints in only 13 days. One such complaint from ward number 8 reads: “Builders show parking area only to get completion certificates, but thereafter construct commercial complexes there. There are many such construction in Nana Mauva area but the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) is doing nothing.”