chandigarh the physical general house meeting of the chandigarh municipal corporation mc will be held on thursday after almost seven months the last meeting was held in februaryno mediapersons and general public will be allowed in the gallery of the assembly hall the meeting will be held following strict covid19 guidelines as the authority has taken all the precautionary measures to hold the meetingthe sitting arrangement has been planned keeping in view the social distance all the councilors will sit by maintaining a gap and unlike the previous meeting all the administrative officers except municipal commissioner and secretary will sit in the public and media galleries some of the municipal councillors will sit on the seats of the officers in the hall moreover transparent glasses have also been placed temporarily at the sitting areas as a precautionary measurethe meeting is all set to witness heating arguments between the ruling bjp and the opposition congress the congress is fully geared up to criticise bjp over various issues and terming their ongoing tenure as a complete failure in terms of developmental works in the city on the other hand bjp will try to target the municipal officers but as the paucity of finances is the main issue congress is all set to raise this point toosignificantly bjp will bring three main agenda items ie revision of water charges rollback of gpsenabled watches and allowing vendors to run business at their original places except sectors 17 22 and 19 besides this the saffron party will also discuss the agenda item to reduce the rent fixed for sector 23based shed marketdevinder singh babla leader of the opposition in the mccumsenior congress councillor said we will expose bjp over its consistent failure in bringing any kind of relief for people since lack of finances in the key issue behind all the problems in the mc they could neither bring in additional budget from the centre nor got any additional grantinaid gia from the chandigarh administration moreover 20 reduction in the given budget has turned the financial situation from bad to worsesweeper union demands will also be one of the important issues to be discussed congress municipal councillors have given a representation of sweeper union demands they have given a representation to the mayor to reduce water tariff we have given these two representations to the mayor because these are genuine demands said babla sources said the meeting will start at 2 pm and could extend till night hours due to the ongoing covid19 pandemic no arrangement has been made for lunch etc