MALAPPURAM
United Democratic Front (UDF) councillors in grama panchayat, block panchayat, district panchayat and municipal councils in the district staged a mass dharna in front of the collectorate here on Tuesday, protesting against the State government’s “anti-local body attitude”.
Inaugurating the dharna, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) national general secretary P.K. Kunhalikutty, MLA, said that the government attitude towards the local self-governments was akin to questioning the very existence of the local bodies. “In the present government’s view, the local bodies are redundant,” he said.