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Prove North MCD scam claim or resign: BJP hits out at AAP
On Tuesday, Sisodia took to Twitter to announce a day-long special session of the Delhi assembly on Thursday on the alleged ₹2,400 crore scam by the municipal corporations.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday challenged the Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government to prove the allegations levelled by them of a ₹2,400 crore scam in the North Delhi Municipal Corporation.
BJP MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, leader of the opposition in the Delhi assembly, said that he will resign if the allegations are found correct. Else chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy, Manish Sisodia, should resign for levelling baseless allegations.
On Tuesday, Sisodia took to Twitter to announce a day-long special session of the Delhi assembly on Thursday on the alleged ₹2,400 crore scam by the municipal corporations.
BJP leaders said that the ruling party in Delhi doesn’t understand the difference between “dispute” and “scam”. Bidhuri said, “There is a dispute between the north and south corporation over the payment of rent of the Civic Centre. The two corporations are working on resolving the dispute; there is no scam in it. I challenge the CM and his deputy to prove it. If a CBI inquiry finds a scam, then I’ll resign from the post of Leader of Opposition, else the CM and his deputy should resign.”
Bidhuri said that the AAP is politicising the issue at a time when the city is battling the coronavirus pandemic. He said that the special session should have been called for more serious concerns. “Instead of calling a special session to just politicise meaningless issues, the government should have called the session to discuss issues such as pollution, lack of public transport, Covid management, condition of Delhi government hospitals, non-payment of salaries to Covid warriors. The government has got its priorities wrong.”
Responding to the allegations, senior Aam Aadmi Party leader and chief spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj said the the BJP has become so desperate after its failed sit-in protest outside the CM’s residence that it is now violating orders of the Delhi high court by allegedly threatening to not pay salaries to its sanitation workers if they do not join the mayors’ protest.
“In the name of a sit-in protest outside the CM’s residence, the mayors of the three corrupt BJP-ruled MCDs are enjoying themselves with shahi paneer and butter naan from Taj Hotel. The citizens of Delhi do not care about their drama because the BJP ruled MCD has never worked for them and is incompetent. Hence, people have no expectations from them,” he said,
Bhardwaj said since nobody is paying any heed to their fake protest, the BJP is now becoming “restless and desperate”. “To seek attention, yesterday a top leader of the BJP met representatives of the Safai Karamchari union of Delhi and threatened them. The BJP has threatened the safai Karamcharis that if they do not join the protest of the mayors and sit outside the residence of Kejriwal, then the BJP ruled MCD will not clear their due salary. There are high court orders dated 27.05.2016 and 11.07.2016 which clearly direct the MCD to pay the regular salaries to sanitation workers,” he said.
On Tuesday, mayors of the three corporations also conducted public dealings from outside the CM’s residence. “We met people who had come to us with their problems related to non-payment of salaries and pension or lack of sanitation in their area. While we have directed the officials to address a majority of concerns, the issue of salaries is still unresolved as we have got no assurance from the Delhi government regarding payment of our dues even after nine days,” said Jai Prakash, mayor of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation.
On the issue of the scam alleged by the AAP, mayors of south and north corporations said that the municipal officials are looking into the matter. “This issue pertains to the time when the corporation was trifurcated. We have to see what were the terms and conditions for revenue sharing of the Civic Centre. Our officials are examining the matter. But the allegations of corruption or scam are all baseless,” said Anamika Singh, mayor of south Corporation.
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