AAP govt, corporations take funds battle to court

The strikers found support from doctors, engineers, nurses and other municipal workers who chose to join the protest from Saturday in order to demand “uninterrupted salaries round the year”. “The BJP controls the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, having swept the election in 2012”, he added. “In the letter written by commissioner P.K. Gupta, the NDMC has asked the Delhi government to release to us ‘651 crore so that salaries and pensions could be paid”, he said. The Delhi government denies the charge.

Kejriwal, who is in Bengaluru for naturopathy treatment, lauded the PWD staff for working through the night to clear garbage and urged AAP functionaries to help the department personnel.

All the three wings of the MCD – South, East and North – are controlled by the BJP, the AAP’s main rival in Delhi.

“Many workers are not being paid their salary for two to three months”.

To grab the Delhi government’s attention, municipal employees have held a protest outside the Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia’s camp office on Thursday morning.

Mewati said it is unconstitutional on the part of the state government to outsource the basic services of the MCD when so many workers are already assigned for the task.

Sisodia had later accused BJP leaders of the three municipal corporations of “instigating” the workers to throw garbage outside the ministers’ residences and offices.

MCD workers have not got salaries of last three months.

“AAP government has brought down budgetary allocation for municipal corporations from 9.3 per cent during our dispensation to 5.98 per cent now. If the government fails to react, we will begin dumping garbage on city streets”, warned Sanjay Gehlot, the president of Swatantra Majdoor Vikas Sayunkt Morcha.

On Monday morning, hundreds of employees of the three municipal corporations staged a noisy demonstration outside Tourism Minister Kapil Mishra’s residence in east Delhi’s Yamuna Vihar and dumped garbage there.