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Office Pulled Down, MIM Deputy Mayor Functions from Floor

Karimnagar: With the Congress gearing up to face the allegation by the TRS that it cheated the people of Telangana, the party leadership has suddenly found itself in another controversy. This time it is the MIM. The minority party’s leaders in the district are crying foul over the decision of the Karimnagar Municipal Corporation mayor to pull down the chamber of the deputy mayor in the corporation office. The deputy mayor — Mohammad Abbas Shami of the MIM — says that the Congress party is cheating their party too like what it did to the TRS. The Congress party could get the mayorship of the corporation only with the help of the MIM. Now, because of problems within the Congress, they are trying to embarrass the MIM and get rid of them, the deputy mayor says. According to the MIM party workers, the mayor — D Shankar of the Congress — ordered to pull down the chamber of the deputy mayor in the name of renovation. The MIM party workers are agitated as the photos of their party leaders — Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi and Asaduddin Owaisi — were thrown on the floor. As a protest, the deputy mayor has got a make-shift office erected in the corporation premises and is discharging his duties sitting on the floor. The officials of the corporation, meanwhile, say that the deputy mayor was to get a new chamber and the old one had to be pulled down. With the construction workers entering the premises in the absence of any supervisor, they had pulled down the chamber and photographs were kept on the floor. How can anybody take a decision to renovate my chamber without my approval? There is no budget that was sanctioned for the work. The corporation did not even have enough fund to even fill the potholes on the roads during the recent rains. There is no way the civic body can afford to spend money on renovation, the deputy mayor says. However, the commissioner says that the corporation w a s granted about Rs 40 lakh for the renovation of the building. We will spend about Rs 10 lakh to renovate the deputy mayor’s chamber, G Rami Reddy, commissioner of the corporation, told newsreporter. However, the Congress insiders see local MLA and sports minister M Satyanarayana Rao’s hand behind the episode. The sports minister doesn’t like the mayor. His men might be behind the episode to demoralise the mayor, insiders said. Mayor D Shankar could not be contacted for comment.