As Pune corporation says 90% of roads repaired, NCP protesters float paper boats in potholes

The NCP protested at the Swargate junction in Pune by floating paper boats and symbolically fishing in potholes on Wednesday, a day after the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) claimed 90 per cent of potholes on city roads had been repaired. The party held the BJP’s recently concluded five-year rule responsible for the bad state of the roads.

“The BJP was ruling the PMC and look at the kind of development they have carried out in the city. All the city roads are full of potholes and the citizens have to suffer because of them,” said the Opposition party’s city chief, Prashant Jagtap. Party spokesperson Pradeep Deshmukh said actual boats would be brought to the roads if the civic administration failed to repair the potholes.