Calcutta High Court
On Aug 27, the state dissolved the civic body and appointed SDO Moin Ahmed as administrator after civic body chief Saikat Chatterjee tendered his resignation. The councillors moved the circuit bench on Aug 31, challenging the govt orders, calling the appointment undemocratic. In the no-confidence motion, Chatterjee had received one vote while 16 councillors voted against him. In 2022, he had drawn widespread criticism for allegedly rigging the municipal election.
The board of councillors has now automatically been revived and they are therefore free to run the municipality. You Can Also Check: Gold Rate in Kolkata | Silver Rate in Kolkata | Bank Holidays in Kolkata | Public Holidays in Kolkata | Kolkata AQI | Weather in Kolkata | Petrol Price in Kolkata | Diesel Price in Kolkata | CNG Price in Kolkata | LPG Price in Kolkata Stay updated with the latest Kolkata news.
Reacting to the court verdict, TMC councillors’ lawyer Bikramaditya Ghosh said: “The court observed that the dissolution of the Jalpaiguri Municipality and the appointment of the SDO as the administrator were not done in accordance with the rules. The board of councillors can now run the municipality. Chatterjee, a Trinamool neta himself, was voted out by Mamata Banerjee-loyalist councillors after he met rebel camp neta Ritabrata Banerjee. three Trinamool councillors were absent While two Congress councillors and the only CPM councillor abstained from voting. So the orders were set aside. Download the TOI App.
Chatterjee was sworn in as the chairperson in Nov last year. Jalpaiguri: Observing that the dissolution of Jalpaiguri municipal board and the subsequent appointment of an administrator had not been done according to rules, Jalpaiguri circuit bench of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday set aside state govt orders and removed the Sadar SDO as the civic body’s administrator.