SMC Mayor retains position after proving majority

SMC Mayor retains position after proving majority

SRINAGAR: Srinagar Municipal Corporation Mayor Junaid Mattu on Thursday retained his seat after getting majority support during the floor test.
A no-confidence motion was moved against him by councillors on Tuesday.
Addressing media, Mattu said that those 55 councillors stood by him in a floor test on Thursday.
“For the last two months, rumours were being spread that I don’t have majority. Some three to four councillors were trying to topple us. But today on the council floor tests, our majority has been proven,” he said.
“They fed half-truth, distorted facts and launched propaganda against me. But now truth of democracy is out on public platform,” he added.
Mattu was facing a challenge after 40 councillors signed a no-confidence motion to oust him from heading the elected civic body.
Though he had immediately submitted his support of councillors to SMC Commissioner, a floor test was held on Thursday that declared him winner. His deputy Sheikh Imran resigned after same process of done to him.
Mattu said the city’s civic body has been turned into a “political battlefield” through “distortion of facts against him,” led by those who actually played it. He alleged that his supporters were “threatened” by vested
elements who he said were attempting to by-pass the “law of natural justice.”
“A group of corporators submitted no-confidence motion against me. They wanted to by-pass the law of natural justice which is voting. Of 40 signatures against me, 12 said they were not against Mayor,” he said.
Mattu said the commissioner of the corporation too was being pressurised to hold the floor test against him.

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