JORHAT, Feb 24 - Ankur Gupta of the BJP, who is the Commissioner of Ward No. 6 under Jorhat Municipal Board, has opposed alloting the work of collecting taxes from market areas and parking lots for the next financial year to the same parties which were awarded the job for the current fiscal year.
In a letter to the JMB Chairman Jayanta Borkakati yesterday, Gupta sought tendering process to be followed in alloting the job of tax collection from market areas and parking lots.
Gupta stated that by not following the process of tendering while alloting the task of tax collection, JMB will be losing revenue and this policy was severely criticised by the BJP when the previous civic body was run by the Congress party.
He also stated that the Gauhati High Court in an order passed last week while responding to a writ petition filed by one Dipak Das on the issue, had directed the JMB to invite bids by issuing tender.
The JMB, having 19 wards, is run by the BJP having 12 ward members and the rest by the Congress.
JMB has been hit by infighting since the middle of last year resulting in replacement of the earlier chairperson Aruna Dutta, (member of Ward No.1) who resigned on August 3, 2017.
Borkakati assumed charge as the JMB Chairman on September 21 last year after the party succeeded in getting the nine ward commissioners who opposed Borkakati, later agreed to accept him as the Chairman.
Similarly, the post of JMB Vice Chairman got vacant in November 24 last year after then Vice Chairman Anup Ghosh Dastidar resigned by citing personal reasons.
On January 21 this year, Paban Bordoloi, Commissioner of Ward No.15 took over as the Vice-Chairman of JMB.