Summary:
The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of BMC councillors, which was chaired by senior TMC leader and Municipal Affairs Minister Firhad Hakim.
Dutta was not invited at the meeting, where it was decided that Deputy Mayor Tapas Chatterjee will discharge the duties of the Mayor till a decision on Dutta’s fate is taken by party chief Mamata Banerjee.
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Days after Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Mayor and Trinamool Congress leader Sabyasachi Dutta took part in an agitation against the West Bengal government, the party on Sunday stripped him of his mayoral powers for “making an anti-party statement”.
The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of BMC councillors, which was chaired by senior TMC leader and Municipal Affairs Minister Firhad Hakim.
Dutta was not invited at the meeting, where it was decided that Deputy Mayor Tapas Chatterjee will discharge the duties of the Mayor till a decision on Dutta’s fate is taken by party chief Mamata Banerjee.
The BMC, which covers Salt Lake and its adjacent areas, has 41 councillors and 39 of them belong to the TMC.
A total of 37 TMC councillors attended the Sunday meeting.
Sources said the councillors were of the opinion that Dutta be removed as the mayor of the civic body.
But Hakim left it for Mamata Banerjee to decide on Dutta’s fate.
Meanwhile, Dutta, who had taken part in an agitation against the state’s power department and slammed the government for not fulfilling the employees’ demands for increasing salaries, rejected the charge of making “anti-party statement”.
“I have followed on the footsteps of Mamata Banerjee.
She had started an agitation in Singur when she was an Opposition leader to fight for the rights of farmers affected by Nano car factory.
She has always asked us to work to protect the interest of the people.