MUMBAI: With BMC chief Iqbal Chahal calling for a meeting of top officials to discuss the city’s food truck policy, the BJP has asked him to seize the food trucks running in the city that were already distributed by the BMC.
In a letter to Chahal, BJP corporator Vinod Mishra said that 30 trucks are already running in Byculla and are distributed by Shiv Sena corporators. “Thirty trucks are already distributed in Byculla and other areas by the local corporators. With the lack of a policy, these food trucks distributed by the BMC using taxpayers money are running illegally,” Mishra said in his letter.
The letter also went to say that there is ambiguity on whether the policy is for food trucks or vegetable vans. “Unless an NOC is taken from the Mumbai police, traffic police and Maharashtra FDA, the distribution and running of these food trucks will be illegal,” wrote Mishra.
While the Shiv Sena is miffed by the BMC’s circular to stop the distribution of food trucks as freebies by corporators ahead of next year’s BMC elections, Chahal has called for a meeting to discuss and formulate a food truck policy on Wednesday.
