An all-party meeting that was held at at Vilappilsala has decided to organise a public meeting to come clean on the vandalism that occurred in the panchayat on August 3 soon after the officials had called off the mission to transport machinery to the Vilappilsala waste treatment plant.
The panchayat and the Samyukta Samara Samithi will explain to the people at the public meeting to be held on Friday that the people in the panchayat were not responsible for the damage caused. The all-party meeting was of the opinion that the City Corporation might have been behind the atrocities since no local would try to spoil the spirit of the agitation.
‘’A man named Shibhu, who works in the Corporation, was seen instigating a gang of around 50 people to take on the police. Some locals who knew him have testified it to us. So, naturally, the link is to the Corporation; or, who else would reap the benefits if our strike is diluted?,’’ asked Shobhana Kumari, Vilappil panchayat president after the all-party meeting.
She said that the panchayat officials have received knowledge about outsiders being in the area on the day of the agitation on August 3. It was they who attacked the police officials, damaged their vehicles and looted them; leading to the lathi-charge. Innocent people were lathi-charged by the police following the incident, she said.
‘’We will clear the air on Friday. We will tell people not to be discouraged by the incidents. The public meet will be held at the Temple Junction,’’ she said.
The district administration, on the basis of a court order, was offering protection to two trucks of the City Corporation carrying machinery for the completion of the construction of a leachate treatment plant inside the Vilappilsala waste treatment plant on August 3, when the public and the panchayat officials created a blockade and sent them back.
Janakeeya Samithi Stand
The Vilappil Janakeeya Samithi has washed its hands of the vandalism that happened on August 3 soon after the agitation ended and the officials dispersed without transporting machinery to the Vilappilsala waste treatment plant.
The violence is a calculated move from certain quarters to tarnish the image of the agitators, who had conducted the strike quite peacefully, Janakeeya Samithi leader S Burhan said in a statement. The Samithi leaders also said that baseless rumours were being planted from somewhere that police were raiding the houses of agitators at night.
Sack Mayor: BJP
The State Government must oust the Mayor, who has proved a failure in tackling the garbage issue in the city, on the basis of Nagarapalika Act, BJP state president V Muraleedharan has said. He was inaugurating a picketing staged by the BJP in front of the Corporation office on Monday. The State government and the Corporation are testing the public, who are reeling under garbage and diseases, he said. The police later arrested the leaders who conducted the sit-in.
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