India, March 13 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Hemant Rasne criticised the Pune municipal administration over the encroachment issue and asked the State government to give strict warning to the municipal commissioner over the civic body's apathy on the prevalent issue.

Rasne raised the Pune city's encroachment issue before the State assembly on Wednesday.

Rasne said, "As elected members are absent and the administration has been calling the shots at Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for the last three years, the city facing the encroachment issue. Kelkar Road, Kumthekar Road, Laxmi Road, Bajirao Raod and all the major roads in the city are engulfed by unauthorised banners, and the administration has failed to take action against the...