BJP wants Delhi to turn into heap of garbage: AAP

5 Dariya News

New Delhi 12-Jun-2015

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led municipal corporations of attempting to convert Delhi into a heap of garbage and being on top among the list of corrupt organisations.AAP passed on the blame for the woes of sanitation workers in Delhi to the BJP and the Narendra Modi government at the Centre.Terming the civic bodies Delhi as the world's most corrupt organisations, the AAP demanded a probe into the role of the party over the issue of non-clearance of salary dues of sanitation workers. Addressing a press conference in the national capital, AAP leader Dilip Pandey alleged that the funds meant for workers' salaries were used for other purposes.

Pointing out that Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had allocated Rs.2,000 crore for the MCD, the AAP alleged that not even a single rupee had reached the beneficiaries.Speaking during the press conference, senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh accused the BJP of trying to "convert Delhi into a garbage dump". He further said that the MCD was demanding more money from the state government despite already getting some funds.

Referring to instances of alleged corruption in Delhi's civic bodies, Singh said that the MCD had as many as 22,000 ghost employees. "People of Delhi are being punished because they voted for Aam Aadmi Party," said the AAP leader, adding that "Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung are punishing people of Delhi".Earlier on Friday, the Delhi High Court asked the Arvind Kejriwal government to release the pending salaries of MCD workers by June 15.