Corporators walk out over Shewale’s ‘irresponsibility’

Interestingly,even BJP corporators,allies of Sena in the BMC,also participated in the walkout. A BJP corporator said it was irresponsible on Shewale’s part to come late for meetings. “On Tuesday,Shewale was with Uddhav Thackeray all day long. But he should have given a prior intimation about his unavailability,” he said.

However,in the absence of all other corporators apart from Sena corporators,more than 30 proposals were cleared without any debate in less than an hour.

When asked about his absence,Shewale said he was apologetic about it but still felt it was wrong on part of corporators to quit the committee meeting in this fashion. “Along with the message,I had also apologised to the members. There was a reason behind my absence yesterday and therefore it was in bad spirit on their part to walk out of the committee meeting today,when I was on time.”

The system to switch to calculation of property tax based on capital value instead of current system of rate-able value (rental value) has been awaiting the standing committee nod for many months now.

Members wanted a detailed presentation of change in tax rates across different areas in the city.