BMC engineers to move HC to seek dismissal of violent politicos

After an MNS leader beat up a BMC engineer engineers of the municipal corporation have decided to approach the Bombay High Court and show the court evidence of civic officials being attacked They want the court to come out with an order to immediately disqualify MLAs or corporators who assail civic officials We protest BMC engineers went on strike yesterdayu00a0to protest the manhandling of civic engineer Rajesh Rathod by MNS corporator Girish Dahanukar on Thursday PicSatyajit Desai Sainath Rajadhyaksha general secretary of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Engineers Union said they decided to knock courtrsquos door after Rajesh Rathod a junior engineer from GSouth ward was beaten up by MNS corporator Girish Dahanukar at the latterrsquos office in Dadar This is not the first time a corporator attacked a BMC engineer Earlier MNS corporators Sandeep Deshpande and Dilip Lande had committed similar offencesu00a0 The engineers have now decided that they wonrsquot go to any corporatorrsquos or MLArsquos office to entertain them ldquoIf they have any work they should come to us in our office and get it sortedrdquo said Rajadhyaksha They also want stringent action against netas who assault engineers ldquoBad roads or any other problem is not completely our fault Engineers cannot be attacked for administrative decisionsrdquo he said Another engineer said ldquoWe are government employees and these people who represent the public attack us It affects our morale and even our family members who are disturbed with these incidents We feel we need to be protected and our last resort is approaching courtrdquo Rajadhyaksha also attributes the increasing problems to the shortage of engineers ldquoThe population has grown twice and the engineer count is stagnant at 3600 We need double the number of engineers than what we have now for efficient functioningrdquo he said Do you think attacking a public servant is justified Name Dilip Lande Designation MNS group leader in BMC corporator from Kurla In the news for On July 26 Lande and his supporters assaulted a road contractor and four labourers for not repairing potholes on LBS Marg in Kurla Lande had then reportedly told the media that ldquothis is the only way to awaken the authoritiesrdquo His response I am not aware of the incident that took place on Thursday as I was out of station I came back on Friday and was busy so I cannot comment on the incident that took place in Dadar While taking the law in your hands is not right sometimes the person on the other side says such derogatory things that these things happen in the heat of the moment Name Sandeep Deshpande Designation MNS corporator from Dadar In the news for On July 23 he and his associates locked up 3 BMC engineers in the GNorth ward office for over 6 hours apparently to motivate them to level the roads in his area ldquoIf they canrsquot fix potholes they should quitrdquo he had then said His response I personally feel that assaulting anyone is wrong but sometimes these things happen out of momentary rage I think people should also understand that the officials are also at fault as even after making repeated complaints they donrsquot attend to the problem and solve the issueu00a0