Splitting of Bengaluru civic body, Congress sets up study panel
Meeting urged the Union government to release more funds for areas affected by floods
Bengaluru: With elections to BBMP only six months away, leaders of the state unit of Congress decided to constitute a five-member committee to study the pros and cons of splitting the civic body into five separate entities at a meeting here on Thursday.
In another decision intended to enhance the party’s prospects in forthcoming local body polls, the leaders asked district unit presidents to set up committees with 25 members in every gram panchayats, and to step up the leadership drive so that the exercise could be completed before the end of 2014. Taking into account the political situation in Karnataka, they demanded that a meeting of the executive committee of KPCC should be convened at the earliest.
Sources in the party said office bearers of KPCC and district unit presidents urged the state government to send a minister to flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir to oversee operations launched to rescue people from the state. Though they appreciated measures initiated by the state government so far, they felt that a minister’s visit to J & K would rescue all survivors from the state.
The meeting urged the Union government to release more funds for areas affected by floods in Karnataka. “There should be a joint survey to assess damage caused by floods,” the leaders said in a statement.
