BJP dumping garbage in Delhi: Kejriwal

Hundreds of MCD protesting sanitation workers on Thursday piled up garbage outside Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s residence over non-payment of their dues.

Delhi Ministers and AAP lawmakers Sunday launched a cleanliness drive in their respective constituencies and said they will not let the people live amid garbage heaps in the national capital as the strike by civic sanitation workers entered its fifth day.

MCD workers have not got salaries of last three months. “Delhi government is not paying us our dues of Rs 650 crore which could help in paying the employees on strike, but it is spending money on lifting garbage on its own”.

The BJP has accused the AAP-controlled Delhi government of starving the civic corporations of funds, leading to the present crisis. He would like to request the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and all three mayors of BJP to pay the money to the workers. “Despite several appeals, our demands are not considered”, said Sanjay Gehlot, president of Mazdoor Vikas Sanyukta Morcha.

Their tactic was to say ‘Safai Karamcharis don’t work and take home bogus salaries, ‘ Upadhyay said.

“I have directed government to deploy as many trucks as are needed to lift garbage”. The MCD did not give us an account of the money spent.

“Despite a court order on it earlier, Delhi government has not released the funds under the 3rd DFC or implemented the recommendations of the 4th DFC or constituted the 5th DFC”.

The minister said the DDA owed Rs 353 crore to the East MCD, Rs 808 crore to the North MCD and Rs 593 crore to the South MCD in taxes.

Undeterred by the indefinite protest by the MCD workers who are agitating over the non-payment of their dues, the Public Works Department, which comes under the Delhi Government has set up a task force to clean up the piling garbage across the city.

Mr Kejriwal and his wife came to the institute in the afternoon and they would be staying in an accommodation called “Nest”, institute sources said.

The civic body is divided into three zones, all run by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the AAP’s main rival in Delhi.