ZP member overshadows Sarpanch!
HERALD CORRESPONDENT
MERCES, APRIL 25
With Curca Sarpanch Subhash Dias admitting the interference of politicians in the panchayat affairs, it was no surprise then that the newly elected Santa Cruz ZP member Adv Suresh Palkar was having more say in the conduct of gram sabha meeting then the Sarpanch himself.
In fact, Adv Palkar was himself answering queries of the villagers and even suggesting solutions to the same.
When contacted, Sarpanch Subhash informed that it was at his instance that Adv Palkar was invited to take the dais at the gram sabha meeting and air his views to the villagers.
Adv Palkar, however, said that having been elected ZP member and due to the request of the Sarpanch, he sat on the dais, otherwise he would have been sitting among the villagers.
On his repeated replies to queries raised by the villagers, Adv Palkar said that he was only enlightening the villagers on the issues which were highly contentious and in no way was he trying to impose himself at the gram sabha.
He further said that being a Curca villager, he has always been in the forefront of discussing issues which are favourable or otherwise detrimental for the village and that today, too, it was no different.
