A road patchwork in ward number 11 of BJP-run Nadiad municipality stirred up a controversy, when party leader and councillor of the ward, Sanjay Patel, undertook the work on his own, allegedly three months after his “requests fell on deaf ears” to complete the repair work. On Tuesday, Patel wrote a letter to the Chief Officer of the Municipality stating that he was going ahead to complete the road patch repair. Although officials of the municipality said that the work was undertaken from civic body funds after receiving an in-principle approval of the municipality president, who also belongs to the BJP, Patel maintained that he was coerced to take up the task as his petitions were not being heard and it had become “difficult” for him to answer the residents.
