Councillors and MLAs of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) organised a chetawani rally outside the office of the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) on Monday against the Delhi BJP for introducing an “anti-people” budget this year.
Led by the AAP’s Leader of the Opposition in the EDMC House, Abdul Rehman, the rally was attended by MLAs Anil Bajpai, Nitin Tyagi, Manoj Kumar, Haji Ishraq, along with all the aldermen.
“The way the BJP-led EDMC has proposed to hike taxes and introduce new taxes is totally anti-people. It will break the back of the common residents of Delhi,” said Mr. Bajpai, the AAP MLA from Gandhinagar.
He said that the AAP is against any such additional financial burden on the people of Delhi and they demanded a rollback of the hiked taxes.
‘Reign of fear’
“A reign of fear has been unleashed and under this fear BJP leaders are minting money from the people. The AAP demands that the tax ceiling must be withdrawn right away or we will intensify our protests,” Mr. Rehman said, adding that the move by the civic body was against residents and businessmen.
The EDMC had introduced two new taxes in the budget presented last week — betterment and professional tax. They had also proposed an increase in property tax.
