Even as the BJP-ruled municipal corporations have been blaming the Aam Aadmi Party Government of being ‘non-co-operative’, AAP MLAs and volunteers on Monday carried out a cleanliness drive in the city.
The AAP alleged that the BJP-ruled municipal corporations have failed to pay salaries to safai karamcharis, which has led to strike by them. The irresponsible attitude of BJP-run municipal corporations has turned Delhi into a heap of garbage, the party said.
AAP MLAs, including Kapil Mishra, Fateh Singh, Shridutt Sharma, Rajendra Gautam, Sarita Singh and Haji Bhure, gathered in Seemapuri area near Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital and carried out a cleanliness drive in the area.
“The BJP’s insensitive attitude towards poor safai karmcharis is deplorable. Municipal corporations have turned into dens of corruption under the BJP and Delhi’s citizens are paying the price of its irresponsible attitude,” said Kapil Mishra, who is also the vice-chairman of the DJB.
Similarly, other AAP MLAs like Nitin Tyagi, S.K. Bagga, Anil Bajpai, Praveen Deshmukh Raju Dhingan and Manoj Kumar gathered near Aggarwal Sweets in Mayur Vihar Phase III with hundreds of party volunteers.
A statement from the party claimed that the Delhi Government has already made all remittances to the corporations that were accrued for this financial year, including 10.5 per cent of tax collections as per the State Finance Commission.
It is also unfortunate that corporations’ own direct source of income, that is property tax, is in miserable state, an AAP statement said. “The collection of legitimate revenue is hampered due to corruption and inefficiency. They have also failed to systematically enhance their revenues,” it said.
‘Municipal corporations have turned into dens of corruption under the BJP and the citizens are paying the price of its irresponsible attitude’
