Srinagar, June 16: Junaid Mattu lost the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) floor test after a ‘no confidence motion’ was passed against the outgoing Mayor on Tuesday.
The voting was held at the Banquet Hall amid a boycott by the Congress as 17 of its corporators besides 11 independents abstained from the exercise.
“The vote of ‘No Confidence Motion’ against me, and the @JKPC_has been passed in the SMC with 42 votes out of 70,” Mattu said in a tweet while blaming the BJP and National Conference for voting him out.
“The seemingly unthinkable seems to have happened as @JKNC_and @BJP4Indiahave come together in Srinagar,” he said.
The BJP, however, distanced itself from the matter, saying former deputy mayor Sheikh Imran was behind the move to bring the present no confidence motion.
“Earlier, we had filed no confidence motion against the Mayor but this time independent corporators have filed no confidence motion against him led by former Deputy Mayor Shiekh Imran,” said BJP’s media in-charge Manzoor Bhat.
Mattu had won a floor test on December 26 last year after receiving support of 50 councillors of the total 70. Later, then deputy mayor Sheikh Imran had resigned.
