Now, the BJP is going for a change of guard in the civic body to aggressively take on the year-old alliance of NCP, Congress and Shiv Sena, which is ruling the state, and which recently defeated BJP candidates in the Graduates’ and Teachers’ constituency elections.
At the same time, the RPI (A) has started raising its demand for a bigger role in running the civic body.
“The BJP had promised RPI(A) that power would be shared in the PMC. It is changing office-bearers in the PMC ahead of civic polls, scheduled to take place over a year later. The RPI(A) has reminded the BJP that our party corporator should be appointed the deputy mayor of the civic body for the remaining period of the five-year term,” senior RPI(A) corporator and former deputy mayor Siddarth Dhende.
BJP s change of guard hits PMC
BJP s change of guard hits PMC
ByPrachee KulkarniPrachee Kulkarni / Updated: Dec 12, 2020, 00:26 IST
In the first changes to be made in civic leadership on Friday, the leader of the house Dheeraj Ghate was replaced with Ganesh Bidkar
Leader of house replaced; soon to follow may be the posts of mayor, deputy mayor and standing committee chairman, too With the next civic polls a year away, kicking off the countdown, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at
Pune Municipal Corporation has chosen to craft a
strategic change of guard. It made the first change on Friday, replacing
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