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72. AAP govt slams garbage
politics
BJP says crisis is your creation
Hitting back at the AAP
government, BJP leader Vijender Gupta described
Sisodia’s call to supersede the three municipal
corporations and hold fresh elections as a
political strategy to weaken the civic bodies.
By: Express News Service |
Delhi | Published:January 29, 2016 2:06 am
CM Arvnid Kejriwal
The Delhi government
Thursday hit out at the BJP-ruled municipal
corporations for not being able to pay salaries
to employees. Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal tweeted that management of an
organisation which cannot pay salaries to
employees does not have right to continue. In
the same tweet, he added MCD should be dissolved
and fresh elections held.
Deputy Chief Minister
Manish Sisodia appealed to the Centre to
dissolve the municipal corporations. The three
corporations have admitted to being paid by the
Delhi government, which means they should have
paid the employees, he said. In last one year it
is the fourth time that employees have gone on
strike, added Sisodia. He alleged employees on
strike were instigated to throw garbage outside
his house.
“Mayors are making
employees throw garbage in front of my
residence. This is garbage politics. We want the
accounts audited. We should have rights to
inquire… if we have responsibility to give
funds,” said Sisodia.
“The three corporations
have themselves admitted having received Rs
892.92 crore for North MCD, Rs 465.53 crore for
East MCD and Rs 668 crore for South MCD under
the non-planned head for the current financial
year… 90% of the non-planned allocation is for
payment of salaries,” added the deputy CM.
Sisodia said the mayors
were scared of getting the accounts audited.
“They should reveal as to how much income they
have generated from the sources of income under
their control… It is shameful that the political
leadership of MCDs is misleading employees by
not telling them the truth. There is no doubt
that the three MCDs have been turned into
organisations of shame by their leadership,” he
added.
Hitting back at the AAP
government, BJP leader Vijender Gupta described
Sisodia’s call to supersede the three municipal
corporations and hold fresh elections as a
political strategy to weaken the civic bodies.
“(The) present crisis is
creation of Kejriwal’s political ambitions. It
is a planned, deliberate and sustained strategy
to create financial crisis in the three
municipalities for political ambitions,” said
Gupta, Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly.
The BJP said AAP was making
the allegations because it was eyeing the 2017
municipal elections. “It has found dubious means
to starve civic bodies of funds so that it can
exploit the situation to its political
advantage. It cannot deny the benefits of Fourth
Delhi Finance Commission,” said Gupta.
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