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GUJRANWALA, May 9: A union council Nazim and his men on Thursday attacked a Wasa inquiry team and some fellow councillors who had complained against him for misuse of funds.
Sixteen councillors of union council 49/13, including Naib Nazim Abdul Rauf Sadal, complained to Wasa against Nazim Chaudhry Salim that he was laying sewerage pipes in his agricultural land instead of the localities where a new sewerage system was needed. Moreover, he started constructing a boundary wall around his land. Thus, they claimed, the Nazim misused the union council funds. They demanded an inquiry against him.
On receiving the complaint, the Wasa managing director ordered an SDO to probe the matter. The SDO and his staff visited the site along with the complainant councillors. The Nazim and his men attacked on the inquiry team and beat up some of the councillors.
They lodged a complaint with the police concerned.
The councillors threatened that they would resign if an inquiry was not conducted against the Nazim. They held a meeting in the afternoon and announced that they would boycott the monthly session of the union council till the acceptance of their demand.
APPROVED: The tehsil council at a meeting on Thursday approved a sum of Rs9 million for the construction of an underway near Nigar level crossing and for the purchase of machinery for cleanliness in the district.
Presiding over the meeting, tehsil Nazim Babu Javed Ahmad assured the members of the opposition and treasury bench that their genuine problems would be resolved on priority.
It was unanimously decided that in future no park would be given to local chamber of commerce and industry for exhibition Made in Gujranwala. The members claimed they held the exhibition at the Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park, GT Road, twice and had destroyed it.
They urged the chamber authorities to pay to the tehsil council for the loss.
Earlier, tehsil Naib Nazim Ehsanullah Chaudhry boycotted the meeting, terming it ‘illegal.’
The opposition and treasury bench expressed resentment over the attitude of the Naib Nazim.
Opposition leader Shaikh Muhammad Iqbal and other members put up many proposals for the development of the tehsil council.
