West Bengal CM Suvendhu Adhikari to apoint coordinators in Municipal Corporation wards from December 1

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday said the state government would appoint coordinators in the wards of the Municipal Corporation from December 1.

While addressing a Chhath Puja programme at Howrah’s Kazipara here, Adhikari also said the opposition parties, who are scared of afraid of their defeat, are obstructing the electoral process, and Howrah Municipal Corporation did not undergo any development for the last 12 years and people were deprived of elected civic representatives and proper municipal services.

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"People who are likely to get defeated in the elections are the ones obstructing the process," Adhikari claimed, adding that he would approach the Supreme Court against attempts to delay the civic polls and will move forward to appoint coordinators, who will assist the state government, for taking forward municipal work.

Meanwhile, the Chief Minister also announced the state’s plans to file a Special Leave Petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court after the Calcutta High Court placed an interim stay on elections for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).

"We will appoint coordinators who will stand by the government and do not oppose it," CM said.

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Adhikari maintained that municipal corporations could not be administered indefinitely by government officials as bureaucrats had their own limitations and could not fully substitute elected representatives.

Stating that basic civic amenities like clean drinking water, proper roads, street lights, primary schools and health centres are people's rights, the chief minister accused the opposition of thwarting those requirements.

The division bench of Justices Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya and Arjun Ray Mukherjee passed the order on an appeal by former CPI-M councillor Dipu Das.