DCC Split

Khoka's activities 'contradictory'

Says Nanak

1 December 2011, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Jahangir Kabir Nanak yesterday said the outgoing Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka's activities on the DCC split issue are “contradictory”. Though the mayor bid farewell to his post, he filed a writ petition challenging the split's legality. Moreover, Khoka's party, BNP, called a dawn-to-dusk hartal over the issue on Sunday, he added. Nanak was talking to reporters after launching the “Sector Development Plan fiscal year 2011 -2025” organised by Local Government Department (LGD) in the city's Ruposhi Bangla Hotel. Over the hartal, he opined that BNP should have waited for the court's decision on the split “instead of making the general people suffer unnecessarily”. On whether DCC would be able to function properly in the absence of a mayor, Nanak said DCC is an organisation which is not dependent on any individual and so there will be no disruptions. Two administrators would be appointed as soon as the gazette notification on the split is released, he added. The Sector Development Plan is being spearheaded by LGD to develop a road map in providing all citizens with safe drinking water by 2011 and sanitation by 2013, said Nanak.