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By Mustafa Shaikh: Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA and former Maharashtra Environment Minister Aaditya Thackeray on Wednesday requested Maharashtra Governor Ramesh Bais to forward his petition to the Lokayukta regarding ‘corrupt practices’ in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
In a letter to the governor, Thackeray has alleged that open corruption is going on at BMC and sources of corrupt practices are being run from the Chief Minister’s office.
Thackeray had met the governor regarding this matter on May 10. Now, he has written a letter to the governor drawing his attention towards the Rs 6,000 crore concrete road work. He has demanded in the letter that the governor should ask BMC not to release the Rs 600 crore of advance mobilisation to the Cement Concrete (CC) road contractors.
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The mega tender for roads in the city must be scrapped and a new tender should be issued with transparency when a new elected general body is in place or under the supervision of a committee of retired judges, Aaditya Thackeray demanded.
Advance mobilisation fund is usually provided for greenfield works and highway projects and never in a city like Mumbai where not even 25 of the 900 planned road works have started, and it is a criminal waste of taxpayers’ money, the Sena (UBT) leader said.
Last week, Aaditya met Bais and sought an investigation by the Lokayukta into the BMC’s alleged Rs 6,080 crore Cement Concrete (CC) road scam and the Rs 263 crore street furniture scam.
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