The Nainital municipality chairman Sachin Negi has been on a protest fast unto death for more than 100 hours. His health started deteriorating on Friday even as the Sitarganj municipality chairman Harish Dubey extended his support to Negi by sitting on protest. Criticising the governmental apathy, he said that the government doesn’t pay heed soon, the agitation will be escalated in all the municipalities of the Kumaon region.
Negi has been sitting on protest supported by councillors at the municipality office here against the government’s failure to allocate budget to the municipal body. Various public representatives and politicians including former MLA and Mahila Congress state president Sarita Arya, members of the employees unions, business fraternity and students’ bodies along with local Congress leaders also extended their support to the protest underway in Nainital. Members of the Devbhoomi Safai Karmchari Sangh also said that they will boycott sanitation works from Saturday. They said that they had not received their salaries for the past three months due to which they had no other option now but to boycott work.