BENGALURU: Karnataka Meeting on Monday handed the Larger Bengaluru Governance Invoice amid protests by the opposition BJP. The Invoice pertains to restructuring the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) by splitting it right into a most of seven metropolis firms within the Larger Bengaluru Space. It additionally supplies for a structure of a Larger Bengaluru Authority for coordination and supervision, and 30 months phrases for the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor.
The Invoice was tabled within the Meeting by Deputy Chief Minister D Okay Shivakumar, who holds the Bengaluru growth portfolio. Shivakumar stated, “We wish the decentralisation of energy and administration. We aren’t destroying Bengaluru as a few of the opposition members have said. As a substitute, we’re strengthening it. We wish to make Bengaluru robust.” He added that the Invoice has been introduced to provide Bengaluru a brand new route.
Disagreeing together with his assertion, the Chief of the Opposition, R Ashoka, stated this Invoice is an insult to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who wished to strengthen the native our bodies. He alleged that the Congress is paving the best way for different native our bodies to boost the same demand for dividing them into a number of divisions. “Dividing Bengaluru won’t assist us,” Ashoka stated.
Taking part within the dialogue, Yelahanka BJP MLA S R Vishwanath stated, “When the Chief Commissioner has been operating the BBMP for the previous a few years with out an elected physique, why do you wish to divide? When you nonetheless need decentralisation of BBMP’s administration then maintain elections, get an elected physique who will handle town nicely.” He additionally stated that if the federal government was eager on forming Larger Bengaluru, it must be achieved after the delimitation of Lok Sabha and Meeting constituencies. “We’ll help you in strengthening its administration however do not divide Bengaluru,” Vishwanath stated.
