BJP national leader and former Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya, Greater Hyderabad party president B. Venkat Reddy and BJP floor leader in the GHMC council Bangari Prakash have written to the Municipal Administration Minister to remove the Mayo of Hyderabad under Sections 679-AA and 679-B of GHMC Act for abusing official position and preventing an elected member from assuming office.
The BJP leaders have stated, “The Mayor’s action was a clear case of gross misuse and abuse of powers and deliberate disobedience of Court orders with a malafide intention to prevent a member of a rival party from taking oath of office. In the process, the Mayor did not hesitate to push the administrative sanctions and statutory approvals into jeopardy when more than Rs 300-crore worth works were waiting approval of the council. As a matter of fact, the Mayor, who belongs to AIMIM party, by abusing his official position, intended to prevent a legally declared member of his rival party from discharging his lawful and statutory duties as a Corporator by putting all other important issues at stake”.
The BJP leaders stated that initially the Mayor avoided to call a meeting of the Corporation with malafide intention of preventing legally declared member from assuming office who was required to take oath in the meeting of the Corporation. After several representations, the meeting was proposed to be convened on December 1, but it was postponed from December 1 to 15. Subsequently, the meeting scheduled to be held on December 15 was also postponed a day before by sending an SMS to the members without any valid reason.
Since the Mayor was deliberately avoiding to convene meeting of the Corporation with ulterior motives of preventing his rival party member from assuming office, party MLA G. Kishan Reddy made a representation to the Municipal Administration Minister to direct the Corporation to implement the Court Orders. At last, the Mayor called the meeting on February 2 with a pre-planned agenda. He put the oath of C. Uday Kumar, the declared elected member of Langer Houz Division at Item no. 38 of the Agenda. However, Langer House Division Ward-69 member C. Uday Kumar took oath immediately after commencement of the proceedings in the presence of Mayor, officials and corporators of all parties. But the Mayor issued a press statement that Uday Kumar did not take oath of office. (NSS)