The final physique assembly of the Kalaburagi Metropolis Company for the second day started with prolonged discussions on the recruitment strategy of pourakarmikas and ended with heated arguments, minor scuffles, and disruptive protests following a derogatory comment on Muslim girls by a BJP councillor.
The arguments began after the BJP councillor Krishna Nayak remarked: “We have seen woman from the Dalit community sweeping the streets, but have you ever seen a burqa-clad woman sweeping on the streets?”
Whereas Congress councillor Ayaz Tabbu Khan threw a chair to specific his anger, Chief of the Opposition Ajmal Gola sat on the desk earlier than the Mayor in protest and demanded that Mr. Nayak apologise.
Mayor Vishal Dhargi adjourned the assembly for a while and known as the councillors and tried for a compromise.
As quickly the assembly resumed, Mr. Nayak tendered the apology to the ground of the Home.
The primary three hours of the assembly have been spent on discussing the delay within the recruitment of pourakarmikas.
The Congress councillor Syed Ahmed requested the company authorities to offer a motive for the delay in regularising the providers of pourakarmikas. There are round 1,041 pourakarmikas working on the metropolis company.
Assistant Govt Engineer (Environmental) Munaf Patel stated that the Directorate of Municipal Administration had notified 258 posts of pourakarmikas within the company, together with 132 pourakarmikas of direct recruitment and 126 posts on direct cost system.
The BJP councillor Krishna Nayak and the Congress councillor Yellappa Naikodi stated the then Regional Commissioner and even the Directorate of Municipal Administration objected to the listing of candidates chosen as pourakarmikas by the company authorities, citing gross violation within the norms to recruit pourakarmikas.
They accused the company officers for together with the names of pourakarmikas who joined not too long ago and ignoring those that have been working on the company for over 20 years.
The councillors alleged that the company officers have been delaying the recruitment course of to guard the curiosity of recruiting businesses.