BJP leaders from Belagavi, including Mayor Shobha Somanache and Member of Legislative Assembly Abhay Patil, have complained to Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot that district in-charge Minister Satish Jarkiholi is interfering in the affairs of the Belagavi City Corporation.
Ms. Somanache, some city corporation members and other party leaders met the Governor who was in Belagavi for a meeting on Friday.
They complained to him that the Minister has been threatening them saying that the State government will supersede the urban local body on false charges. The Minister is also using some officers who are loyal to him to mislead the government and create false evidence against the elected body. The Minister has taken objection to the corporation’s delay in increasing property tax rates in the city. This is a false allegation, as the corporation has already decided to do it, they said in a letter to the Governor.
