Mumbai: Despite having 83 corporators in BMC, BJP gets zero allocation from Mayor’s Rs 190 crore fund, Mayor from Shiv Sena defends
3 years, 9 months ago

Mumbai: Despite having 83 corporators in BMC, BJP gets zero allocation from Mayor’s Rs 190 crore fund, Mayor from Shiv Sena defends

Op India  

Despite having 83 corporators in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the second-highest after Shiv Sena’s 97, the saffron party did not receive a single paisa from the Mayor’s Rs 190 crores fund, a report published in the Times of India said. BJP had then got Rs 140 crores from the Rs 650 crore fund passed by the civic standing committee. Shiv Sena member and Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar defends zero allocation to BJP’s 83 corporators However, Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar, who is from Shiv Sena, said she could not allocate double funds to the BJP since they had already received Rs 140 crores from the standing committee. But, Pednekar did not elaborate on how Shiv Sena corporators qualified to receive Rs 163 crores when they were already given Rs 340 crores by the standing committee.

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India TV News  

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India TV News  

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