Civic workers dump garbage at Delhi Deputy CM’s camp office

He said the present MCD should be dissolved and fresh elections held. “Hence, we have undertaken the cleanliness drive”, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said.

Demanding regular salaries, payment of long pending arrears, regularisation of contract-based workers, health cards and unification of three municipal corporations, the workers launched the strike on January 27. We ask him to please intervene and get the funds to the MCDs from DDA so that the crisis is resolved.

“Kejriwal government should stop misleading people on municipal funds”.

This comes even as the Delhi government and the MCD are engaged in a blamegame.

Yesterday, Sisodia was meted with a similar treatment as a pile of garbage was dumped outside his office by the MCD workers over non-payment of their dues.

According to reports, the protesting workers are likely to gherao the residence of Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday. EDMC mayor Harshdeep Malhotra said with half of the money spent on the one-day exercise, salaries for two months of the striking civic body employees would have been paid.

Meanwhile, according to sources, Mr Jung has also written a letter to the Delhi government asking it to resolve the problems of the protesting employees of the three civic bodies.

“We will call off work for an indefinite period if our demands are not met”, he added.

Over 1.5 lakh workers of the three wings of MCD, Delhi’s main civic body, began a three-day strike on Wednesday over non-payment of salaries.

“We are saying that we have already given all the money for the entire year to the MCD (sic), while BJP is saying that no money has been given”.

Asserting that municipal accounts are always accessible for inspection, Upadhyay “challenged” the Delhi government to make public the list of hundreds of AAP volunteers who, he claimed, have been enrolled in Delhi government’s co-terminus jobs, along with their salaries.

The MCD is the biggest of the three civic bodies in Delhi.