AAP, BJP in blame game

The public works department of the city government has deployed 93 vehicles to clean garbage dumps. “We will continue to dump garbage on roads till they (government) feel ashamed”, a protester said.

Gehlot claimed that employees from all the three civic bodies have taken part in the strike.

“The government is doing nothing”.

The protestors demanded immediate release of funds for their salaries, which they said were pending for months, and threatened to go on an indefinite strike if their demands are not met soon.

“Following instructions from the Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, PWD minister Satyendar Jain formed a PWD task force on Friday night, which swung into action on Saturday morning”, said a statement from the government.

Hundreds of BJP workers have also joined the strike by sanitation workers of municipal corporations of Delhi. Protesting unions asked the Delhi government to release grants earmarked for the corporation.

Sisodia reiterated the charge made earlier by his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government that there was a massive “salary scam” going in three municipal bodies that make up the MCD.

“The Delhi Cabinet passed a resolution requesting the LG, who is also the DDA chairman, to direct the DDA to immediately pay its outstanding tax dues of at least Rs 1,575 crore to the three municipal corporations”, Mr Sisodia told reporters at the Delhi Secretariat. “They have worked and are demanding their right…they are not begging”, Kejriwal said in a series of tweets.

Sanitation workers staged protests across the city as their strike entered the sixth day on Monday even as thousands of teachers of MCD schools, too, refused to report for duty, hitting academic work.

As per reports, the agitating MCD employees are expected to stage a protest march in the Laxmi Nagar locality in east Delhi today. The AAP supremo’s wife will also undergo treatment for some undisclosed ailments, they said, adding that doctors on day-to-day basis will decide on the type of therapy they will undergo.

Extending support to striking workers demanding dues, Kejriwal hoped that “some solution” will emerge after the High Court hears the matter next week.