BMC corporators have shot down a proposal to frisk them

The BMC may want to clip their wings but corporators won't let that happen. As expected, corporators across party lines have shot down a proposal to frisk them, throw them out, that was brought in by the civic administration to maintain decorum in the House. Even the Shiv Sena did not stand in support of its Mayor's decision, and shot down the proposal.

The group leaders have now decided that a separate committee comprising of corporators representing all parties will be formed to deliberate on the issue. This committee will present its draft policy to the administration, only after the consent of all corporators.

The proposal was introduced following the incident of a senior Congress corporator dumping garbage on the Mayor's desk in February this year.

As per the proposal, corporators could be frisked before a meeting, marshals would guard the meeting hall to evict a corporator who was misbehaving in the house, and mobile jammers would be installed in the premises of the meeting.

The proposal also gave the municipal commissioner exclusive powers to recommend disqualification of any corporator to the state government directly, in case of 'unruly' behaviour, instead of tabling the proposal in the BMC house first. Apart from this, it mandated that corporators should be made to commit to good behaviour before being sworn in to their duties.

Intrestingly, not only the opposition, but leaders from the ruling party also opposed the proposal. They called it a curbing of corporators powers