Aurangabad : Ever since Astik Kumar Pandey took over as the Municipal Administrator, he has been failing to solve the problems of the people. The city Congress office-bearers, while interacting with the media personnel, demanded immediate transfer of Pandey, who spends an hour or two hours after reaching the Municipal Corporation occasionally in a week.
Two days ago, under the leadership of Congress office-bearer Hisham Usmani, the Municipal Commissioner had reached the Municipal Corporation to meet Astik Kumar Pandey regarding the problems of the city. Then only 4 to 5 people were waiting to meet him at Pandey’s room. The Congress office-bearers informed the commissioner through C.P.H. to meet him. But, despite spending more than an hour outside his cabin, the municipal administrator Pandey did not consider it appropriate to meet the Congress office bearers.
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Public upset due to Aastik Pandey’s arbitrariness
Angered by this, Congress city president Hisham Usmani expressed strong displeasure and raged on the work of Aastik Pandey. Usmani said that ever since Pandey got the charge of administrator, he has been working arbitrarily. He doesn’t have time to meet people. The Congress city president said that since the last two years, due to the administrator’s rule over the municipal corporation, Pandey is arbitrarily ignoring the problems of the people. We had come to meet him only with the problems of the city, but he made us wait for more than an hour. Then his soldier came and said that it will take half an hour to meet you. On this, Usmani expressed his displeasure and said that people are coming to meet the administrator due to lack of office bearers in the Municipal Corporation. But, Aastik Pandey is absent from the office for a week and people are going back after reaching the headquarters of the Municipal Corporation. The administrator should fix the time every day to meet the people. But, for the last two years, this is not happening with Pandey. In such a situation, the demand for immediate transfer of Administrator Pandey was made by Congress city president Hisham Usmani, besides office bearers Alankrit Yewtekar, Santosh Bhingare, Mohsin Ahmed, Vishal Banswal, Idris Nawab, Sahebrao Bankar, Shehbaz Khan.
Pandey is avoiding even meeting journalists
After several days on Tuesday, Administrator Astik Pandey reached the municipal headquarters. Journalists also reached to meet him. The information about the arrival of the journalist was given to the municipal administrator Pandey through the sepoy. Journalists also spent more than an hour outside his chamber to meet Aastik Pandey. Despite this, Pandey did not consider it appropriate to meet the journalists. Due to which the journalists got angry and they all came out of his room.