The issue of crediting wages of pourakarmikas directly to their bank accounts, handing over smart city works with questionable quality and related issues led to chaos and consumed most of the time during the monthly council meeting of the municipal corporation in Hubballi on Monday.
Raising the issue of passing a resolution in favour of the civic workers, Leader of the Opposition in the House Suvarna Kallakuntla clarified that the party was not opposing the move but pointed out the hardships being caused to the people in the localities as even those workers who were already being paid the wages directly had joined the agitation.
She sought to know what action the municipal corporation had taken against them because they were supposed to attend work already being paid directly and had no reason to join the protest. Her argument evoked strong reaction from the councillors of the ruling party BJP, who tried to justify the action of such workers.
