Bengaluru: Chaos ensued at the BBMP Council meet on Thursday over the increase in property tax, as BJP corporators refused to enter the Council building. When protests against the suspension of corporators intensified, Mayor Manjunath Reddy revoked suspensions of the four corporators, who had been hauled up for disturbing the Council meet.
Later, continuing their protests against the property tax increase, Opposition leader Padmanabha Reddy demanded that the increase be cancelled immediately, as the BBMP had failed to collect pending dues from defaulters. Mr Reddy alleged that the online tax system had run into problems and even honest taxpayers were unable to pay on time.
Mayor Manjunath Reddy said that people’s responses had been considered before the enforcement, and nobody had problems with it except the BJP corporators. “Don’t protest for the sake of it. You are involved in corrupt politics and that’s why you are protesting. More than four lakh citizens have paid their taxes without any difficulty,” he maintained.
