Hyderabad: Won’t allow, says BJP on iPhones for outgoing GHMC members

The decision of the Standing Committee of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Thursday to give themselves a brand new Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max (512GB) has given ammunition to the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to attack the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).

The GHMC’s move comes at a time when all the 17 members of the Standing Committee, which is the final authority to approve the development projects of the Corporation, will demit office in the first week of February 2021. The proposal to buy new iPhones was among the 14 proposals that were approved Thursday.

Each phone would cost Rs 1.6 lakh and a total sum of Rs 27.23 lakh was approved by the committee chaired by Mayor Bonthu Rammohan.