In this file photo, Mayor retired Col Mubashir addresses a district assembly session on the Town Hall lawns. White Star/File
LAHORE: The Metropolitan Corporation Lahore (MCL) administration on Tuesday again locked offices after the Lord Mayor reached there to perform duty following release of a detailed judgment of March 25 order by the apex court regarding restoration of the local institutions across Punjab.
However, Mayor retired Col Mubashir Javed conducted his office in a veranda of Town Hall and assigned the deputy mayors with the task to visit sacrificial animals’ sale points / markets in the city and ensure implementation of the Covid-19 SOPs by animal buyers and sellers, staff etc.
LAHORE: The district assembly on Thursday decided to issue show-cause notices to various officials of the Metropolitan Corporation Lahore (MCL) under the Punjab Employees Efficiency and Discipline and Accountability (Peeda) Act for not obeying the lawful orders of the elected local bodies’ representatives, whose offices were restored by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on March 25 this year.
The assembly members, in a session convened by the speaker, Deputy Mayor, Nazir Ahmad Khan Swati, in the presence of the leader of the house, Lahore Mayor retired Col Mubashir Javed, also unanimously decided to approach the Punjab chief secretary and the local government department secretary, asking them to issue show-cause notices to the officers of the department posted in the MCL as municipal officers (MOs) and the chief corporation officer, under the Peeda Act.
LAHORE: As the Punjab government continues delaying implementation of the March 25 order on the pretext of ‘waiting for a detailed judgment’, mayors, district councils’ chairmen and others have finally decided to file a contempt petition against the government for not handing over the charge of the local bodies offices to them.
As many as 17 mayors and district council’s chairmen, led by Lahore mayor retired Col Mubashir Javed, are set to file a contempt petition by next week, Dawn has learnt.
“We have been left with no option but to move a contempt petition in the Supreme Court in the next few days against the Punjab government,” the Lahore mayor told Dawn on Saturday.