The ultimatum was given by party corporator Sandeep Deshpande during the meeting of Standing Committee of BMC.
"Our party has given a clear cut ultimatum to civic body chief Ajoy Mehta that if potholes are not filled before Diwali, then our workers would make him stand before potholes and get a placard in his hands to accept and announce that he (Mehta) is responsible for potholes across city," Deshpande told PTI.
"We know that whether we make a chief engineer responsible for (condition of) roads or the BMC Commissioner, punishment is same for making both the officers responsible. So why not BMC Commissioner should be declared responsible for the sorry state of roads," he asked.
Deshpande claimed all parties in BMC had supported his stand of holding the chief engineer responsible for pockmarked roads. "The parties expressed their displeasure on why only two corporators were sent to jail for raising a valid issue of potholes," he said.
An uproar was witnessed during the Standing Committee meeting, with corporators spanning all parties holding the civic administration responsible for rising numbers of potholes.
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