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BANGALORE, FEB. 15. A demonstration by members of the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) Noukarara Kendriya Sangha took a serious turn when it provoked corporators of all parties and stalled the proceedings of the BMP Council meeting for almost the whole day on Tuesday. Irked by the employees' demand for arrest of the Jeevana Bima Nagar corporator, N. Munireddy, for allegedly assaulting a revenue employee, T.V. Nagaraj, corporators from all parties condemned the protest and said the employees had created a controversy over a trivial issue. Over 500 employees, who staged the demonstration in front of the BMP head office, refused to leave the place unless the corporator was arrested. Though the council had met to approve several important subjects pertaining to the city's administration, the whole day was spent on discussing the protest alone. The Mayor, R. Narayanaswamy, has set up an eight-member committee to investigate the matter. The committee has been asked to submit its report within a month. Disputing the employees' allegation that the corporator assaulted the employee, the corporators said the employees had a "hidden agenda" in holding the strike. "We want to know whether they have taken permission from the BMP Commissioner, K. Jothiramalimgam, to stage the protest and paste posters within the BMP premises," the Opposition leader, B.R. Nanjundappa, said. Others, including the Accounts Committee Chairman, M. Nagaraj, the Janata Dal (United) leader, Padmanabha Reddy, the Basavanagudi MLA, K. Chandrashekar, and the Kanakapura MP, Tejaswini Sriramesh, demanded that the Commissioner cut the striking employees' wages for the day. They were upset because the employees did not bother to withdraw the strike despite the pleas by the Mayor and Ms. Tejaswini Sriramesh and the Commissioner. "They have printed posters and organised the strike within no time by misusing official machinery. If they had bothered to perform their duties with the same interest, it would have been better for the city," the corporators said. Ms. Tejaswini Sriramesh termed it as a war between the elected representatives and the bureaucracy. "If the employees do not withdraw the strike unconditionally, we will also stage a counter-protest. I am confident that citizens will join us in this," she said. The Commissioner replied that he had tried to defuse the matter after he came to know of it on Monday. "But that was not possible because of the stand of some misguided persons," he said. On the corporators' demand to cut the striking employees' wages for the day, the Commissioner replied: "If there is no work, then there is no pay. It is a settled case of the Supreme Court. No second thoughts about that." He added that if the council resolved to prohibit protests within the BMP premises, he would speak to the City Police and get them posted at the BMP head office during council meetings.
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