VMC civic employees to boycott work demanding apology from Congress President

Vadodara, 11 February, 2012

Two senior officials of Vadodara Municipal Corporation(VMC); Engineer PM Patel and Deputy Engineer Jignesh Shah, are taken to Sayaji hospital, as they complained pain in their eyes, after Congress party’s city General Secretary threw ink on their faces yesterday, ‘protesting’ alleged faulty design of a new Rs 51 crore Sayajirav flyover which has been opened for traffic recently.

Protesting the uncivilized and goon like act of ink throwing, more than 1,000 staff members of VMC walked out from their offices and gathered in the compound, boycotting their work yesterday and declared indefinite strike from Monday, demanding apology from city Congress President.

VMC’s naukar mandal, SC/ST employees union, Technical association, Employees union, All India Valmiki employees union and other major organizations have supported the strike against Congress goons.

It should be mentioned that city Congress General Secretary who had thrown black ink on the faces of two VMC officers escaped to avoid his arrest soon after his act of throwing ink.

A group of Congress workers led by city Congress President Narendra Ravat and leader of opposition Chinnam Gandhi, entered into office of Nurm project’s Executive Engineer PM Patel at 3.30 to give a memorandum on faulty design of new Sayajirav flyover (also known as a Lalbaug flyover). While Shri PM Patel was receiving the memorandum, a Congress worker Narendra Jaiswal, who is also city General Secretary of Congress threw black ink over Shri PM Patel and attempted to make his entire face black. Some ink also spilled over Deputy Engineer Shri Jignesh Shah. Later a police complaint was filed by Shri PM Patel against Narendra Jayswal in Ravpura police station. Jayswal has been booked under the offense of spoiling a dress and breach of public notification.

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Meanwhile today the VMC teams reached city Congress President Chinnam Gandhi’s party plot in Manjalpur area and served notice against commercial use.