Bengaluru, April 9 -- Describing the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike's (BBMP) newly-imposed Solid Waste Management (SWM) User Fee as "completely illegal", senior BJP leader and former Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister CN Ashwathnarayan on Wednesday demanded its immediate withdrawal, alleging that the order violated both government directives and BBMP's own bylaws.
"This is an illegal order - it contradicts the very bylaws notified by the Government of Karnataka. BBMP is not entitled to collect this fee, and it must be withdrawn in the interest of citizens of Bengaluru," he told reporters here.
Ashwathnarayan pointed out that the BBMP was already collecting a Solid Waste Management cess and that the additional levy in the form of a user fe...