‘MCDs won’t follow AAP conditions’

Deciding not to comply with the conditions imposed by the Kejriwal government for sanctioning loan to North and East Delhi Municipal Corporations, the Delhi BJP said that the two local bodies, where it is in majority, would neither retrench temporary staff nor hike property tax. The BJP also alleged that the Delhi government is anti dalit and anti-poor and has no right to celebrate its one-year in office.

Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay said that the AAP promised to regularise the services of temporary employees, especially safai karamcharis, but after coming to power the Kejriwal government was bent upon retrenching the services of temporary safai karamcharis and the 4th grade employees.

Presenting a circular issued for the municipal corporations by the Delhi government, he said, “The circular of the Kejriwal government issued to the municipal corporations on 4 February 2016 is proof of its anti-dalit-Balmiki community and poor people and after this the government has no moral rights to celebrate in any form.”

Leader of the House in North Delhi Municipal Corporation Yogender Chandolia said the Congress and the AAP are the two sides of the same coin as they use the poor and the dalits for their political gain. “When the municipal corporations and the Delhi Jal Board were under the Congress and now under the Kejriwal government, no action was taken to regularise the services of safai karamcharis until they resorted to agitation, but during the BJP rule in 2011-12, the municipal corporations regularised more than 7,200 employees,” said Mr Chandolia.

North mayor Ravinder Gupta said the February 4, 2016 circular of the government has exposed its anti-dalit character and it is also a proof of its political malice. The Delhi government issued orders to the municipal corporations that they should implement the recommendations of Municipal Valuation Committee within two months and should also withdraw the exemption on the property tax dues, he added.

Meanwhile, Delhi Congress president Ajay Maken on Tuesday apprised Union home minister Rajnath Singh about the ongoing crisis plaguing the three municipal corporations in the national capital. He told the home minister that provinding conditional loan to the corporations was not the permanent solution for the cash- strapped civiv bodies.

Slamming the AAP government for imposing “stringent” conditions while extending loan to the civic agencies, Mr Maken said that the government has imposed such stringent conditions that municipal corporations won't be able employ any new sanitation worker or class IV employee in Delhi.