Mysore/Mysuru: In-Charge Mayor Sunanda Palanetra has expressed her displeasure about not being invited to the Ashada Friday meeting yesterday. “The meeting was pre-decided and as per the protocol, the invitation had to be extended to me in advance. I am the First Citizen of Mysuru and I got a call from the Personal Secretary of the District Minister only at 5 pm when the meeting started,” she told Star of Mysore this morning.
“These people want the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) to do all the work during major events but do not have the courtesy to invite the First Citizen for a meeting. By the time I attended the meeting, it had already begun and I had to rush there after cancelling my prior engagements,” she said.
“I think the District Minister would have realised my absence and then he asked his Secretary to call me. At least the senior officers of the District and the MCC could have remembered me. By not inviting me, they have disrespected the Mayor’s position. Even when I went to the meeting, my signature on the meeting attendee ledger was not taken,” Sunanda Palanetra said.
Grow up Sunanda Palanetra. You may consider yourself as the First Citizen of the City, but the IAS officers and the minister are more powerful than you. Unlike Mayors in the cities of the Western countries, you have very little executive power. So calm down and face the reality.
Grow up Sunanda Palanetra. You may consider yourself as the First Citizen of the City, but the IAS officers and the minister are more powerful than you. Unlike Mayors in the cities of the Western countries, you have very little executive power. So calm down and face the reality.
I understand this Sunanada Palanetra is a close relative of Yedi, the RSS Cheddi, the previous CM. Well, Yedi, the RSS Cheddi was kicked out of his CM’s position ,replaced by another dimwit Lingayat Bommai, who the BJP High Command consider as useless.
After becoming Mayor she had visited Yoga Narasimha Swamy temple in Vijayanagar and I was there at the temple. The temple usually opens the sanctum curtains at 11 am to allow devotees to view the diety. Many devotees were waiting in the temple. But when the Mayor came, the temple priest allowed her and her followers right inside the sanctum even though the rituals/cleaning were still going on. The common public has to wait while influential people have no restrictions.