Have collected 100k+ signatures against corporation’s ‘harsh’ policies, say AAP leaders

While the AAP is in charge of the Delhi government, the BJP rules the three municipal corporations.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday said that they have collected the signatures of more than 100,000 traders across the national capital as part of its ongoing campaign against taxes and duties levied by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led municipal corporations in Delhi (MCD). The BJP dismissed the AAP’s claim as “misleading”.

"Milestone of 100,000 signatures reached by AAP in its ongoing signature campaign against BJP-ruled MCD’s harsh new policies and increase in taxes," AAP’s chief spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj said. (ANI)

While the AAP is in charge of the Delhi government, the BJP rules the three municipal corporations.

The Capital goes to the municipal polls next year.

During a press conference of the AAP’s head office in central Delhi on Wednesday, the party’s spokesperson and Greater Kailash MLA, Saurabh Bhardwaj, said, “Milestone of 100,000 signatures reached by AAP in its ongoing signature campaign against BJP-ruled MCD’s harsh new policies and increase in taxes. Shopkeepers in bazaars have a lot of resentment towards the BJP-ruled MCDs...Traders and professionals are openly admitting that the MCDs are looting as much money as they can because the BJP knows that it might lose the next elections.”

Dismissing the statement as “misleading”, Delhi’s BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said, “I am an Old Delhi-based trader and have not heard of any AAP campaign among traders in Old Delhi or any other prominent market. Traders of Delhi have always stood by BJP... Problems that traders are facing due to rise in some civic charges will be resolved soon.”