Summary:
A senior BEST official said, “We should question the BEST committee who were absent at the meeting. Only four of the 17 committee members were present on Friday at the BEST committee meeting called to discuss the issues for which the BEST workers have been on strike since four days. The memberswho attended the meeting included Shiv Sena’s Ashish Chemburkar followed by Ravi Raja of the Congress, BJP’s Sunil Ganacharya, and Srikant Kawathankar. The BEST committee was scheduled to discuss the demands of the administration including salary hike and the merger of budget with Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). However, committee member Sunil Ganacharya wrote to the administration on January 3, almost four days before the strike, requesting a discussion..