Counicillors lock mayor office in Pabna
Agitated councillors of Faridpur municipality in the district locked the mayor's office on Monday afternoon protesting recruitment of 12 employees allegedly to woo votes in the upcoming municipality election.
Refuting the allegation, mayor Abul Hossain claimed that the recruitment was made through a long administrative procedure.
According to the sources, recruitment of 12 employees of the municipality was completed in December. Earlier the recruitment of the posts was postponed in 2004 as the councillors had protested the recruitment terming it a 'political recruitment'.
“The mayor recruited 12 employees belonging to BNP, Jamaat parties in 2004. We protested the political recruitment and the then district administration stopped the recruitment. After 6 years the mayor recruited them again last month targeting the upcoming municipality election." Md. Shahadat Hossain, councilor of Ward No. 2 of Faridpur municipality told this correspondent.
The mayor left the area when the news of agitation by the councillors spread in the municipality. All the 12 councillors went to the mayor's office and locked it on Monday, locals said.
Contacted, mayor Abul Hossain also the upazila unit BNP leader refuted the allegation.
"There was a long investigation into the disputed recruitment process. After the investigation I recruited them last month," Abul Hossain said.
Asked about the locking of his office, the mayor said that the councillors often harassed him for not heeding to their illegal proposals.
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