Corporators of the ruling party in the BMC took a U-turn and passed a proposal to increase parking charges in the city. The Shiv Sena-BJP combine is the ruling party in the BMC, while the Samajwadi Party and Congress corporators are in the opposition. MiD DAY had reported how the Improvements committee had rejected the proposal, as all corporators were opposed to the move (‘‘Poor’ car owners cannot pay higher parking fees: BMC’, December 1). In fact, the elected representatives had instead demanded that the charges be reduced.

Ashraf Azmi, SP corporator, tore the proposal to hike parking charges