Leader of Opposition of Raipur Municipal Corporation Meenal Chaubey has accused Mayor Aijaz Dhebar of misleading the media and the people of Raipur by raising questions on the documents shown in his press conference after returning from Moscow trip. She said that the name of the sender in the letter received by the Mayor is written as Deputy Mayor and there is no logo or seal sign anywhere in the letter. The summit held in Moscow was merely a discussion on the subject of transport and road infrastructure, in which transport experts from cities of different countries, development ministers of different cities, transport operators, innovators had come to participate, which Mayor Dhebar is calling his official trip.
On Monday, Raipur Mayor Aijaz Dhebar held a press conference in Raipur Municipal Corporation and shared information about the main aspects of his recent Moscow visit. He said that he participated in a round table conference with representatives of countries from China, Brazil, Central Asia, East Asia and Africa. In my speech, I expressed my views on traffic improvement. Along with big cities like Beijing, Bali, Moscow, we will now also become members of Transport Summit and exchange research and data with each other to improve transport traffic pollution.
Mayor Ejaz Dhebar said that he saw a presentation on international technology for running light metro in Raipur. An MoU was signed between Moscow, Russia and Raipur, India. In which, we will move forward with the intention of jointly cooperating to develop transport-road, infrastructure and improve transport systems between the two countries and will try to cooperate in the priority area.
At the same time, the Leader of Opposition today alleged that no agreement like MOU was signed in this conference, it was only a joint statement in which there is no mention of MOU for light metro. He has accused Mayor Dhebar of deceiving the public and the media and demanded his resignation.
Mayor Dhebar sent a proposal of Rs 10 lakh to the corporation commissioner for Moscow trip, but did not get approval
In her press conference today, Leader of Opposition Meenal Chaubey accused Mayor Dhebar of releasing the documents of the proposal of Rs. 10 lakhs sent for her Moscow trip and trying to hide the proposal sent to the government for a personal trip. She said if this was an official trip of Mayor Dhebar, then why did she not get the approval. The documents released included the details of the food, accommodation and travel expenses made by the agent of The Travel Gallery and the proposal to the Corporation Commissioner for approval of Rs. 10 lakhs. The Leader of Opposition says that this proves that the trip which the Mayor is calling official was actually a personal trip.
Know what Mayor Dhebar said about the letter:
On this, Mayor Dhebar said that a few days after the invitation, he had written a letter to the Municipal Commissioner to approve an amount of Rs. 10 lakhs for the Moscow trip, however, a few days later he got information that the Moscow government would bear the expenses of this trip.
The mayor shared the information in a press conference: