CUTTACK: The council meeting of Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC), on Saturday, witnessed unruly scenes with ruling BJD corporators opposing and countering Congress corporators while they were discussing alleged largescale corruption in displaying hoardings in the Millennium city.
Congress corporator Arun Sethi had brought allegation about corruption of more than `100 crore during the last 17 years. He had alleged that revenue generated from displaying around 3 lakh sq.ft of hoardings has been misappropriated in which local legislature, Mayor and BJD corporators are involved.
Refuting the allegation, BJD corporators questioned why they took the name of local legislature while Congress corporators did not take serious note of it. Irked, BJD corporators abused them following which Congress corporators staged demonstration and dharna with placards demanding details of the information about hoardings of CMC.
The Congress corporators too had also raised questions about some basic problems, including delay in tender process for city sanitation, implementation of LED light system, non-availability of ration cards and pension for widow and old age persons.Later, Congress corporators withdrew their dharna after Mayor Minakshi Behera assured to provide ward-wise details of information on hoardings and complete the tender process for city sanitation project before the next council meeting besides implementing LED lighting system in the city by November 6.