After a confrontation between the municipal council and the secretary in the Congress-ruled North Paravur municipality over the allocation of funds for the organisation of the State government’s Nava Kerala Sadas, a similar plot is now playing out in another Congress-ruled Thrikkakara municipality.
Though the Thrikkakara municipal council hasn’t yet convened to decide against allocating funds for the Nava Kerala Sadas, that seems the de facto decision of the local body. This was in keeping with the United Democratic Front position that local bodies headed by it need not issue funds. This was despite the government order urging local bodies to allot funds - ₹1 lakh in the case of Corporations and municipalities and ₹50,000 by panchayats – towards the organisation of the Nava Kerala Sadas.
“We haven’t convened a council to decide against the allocation of funds for the Nava Kerala Sadas. But I have written to the municipal secretary forbidding him from making any allocation against the will of the governing committee,” said municipal chairperson Radhamani Pillai.
