No Central aid given to municipal bodies: AAP

New Delhi: The AAP government on Tuesday claimed that no grant-in-aid for local bodies in Delhi was provided by the BJP led Centre and that it was ‘misleading’ the people on the issue.

Tweeting a party pamphlet detailing funds provided to municipal corporations by his government, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal sought a reply from the Bhartiya Janta Party on the issue.

Delhi BJP retaliated saying that the AAP government has ‘failed’ to provide funds to the municipal corporations as per the 3rd Delhi Finance Commission (DFC) recommendations.

‘Centre is misleading on the issue of funds provided to the Delhi government. Delhi is being mistreated by the Centre and the grant-in-aid for the local bodies are not being provided which would total Rs 4,087 crore as per the 2011 Census,’ the Aam Aadmi Party government said in a statement.

It also claimed that the Centre has ‘rejected’ its ‘repeated requests’ for implementation of the 4th Delhi Finance Commission recommendations.