Delhi will be spruced up to look like london in just one year if the AAP wins the coming municipal polls, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal declared on Sunday. The Chief Minister while addressing a public rally at Uttam Nagar said, the BJP-run municipal bodies had thoroughly failed to keep the national capital clean.
Kejriwal said both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party had controlled the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for 15 long years but had nothing to show in terms of a clean Delhi.
“If we get control of these (three) municipal bodies, I promise to clean up Delhi like never before,” the Aam Aadmi Party leader said to applause.He said it was the duty of the municipal body, not the Delhi Government, to keep the city clean.
Kejriwal said the reason why the AAP-run Delhi government had been able to achieve a lot in the health, education and other sectors was because it refused to compromise with corruption.
He admitted that he “fought a lot” with the central government but made it clear that he fought for the people of Delhi, “not for the sake of my children and wife”.
Kejriwal claimed that his government’s achievements on many fronts in the past two years far surpassed the achievements of the BJP-run governments in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in the last 10-15 years.
The AAP leader was speaking at an event to mark the inauguration of sewer and drains in Uttam Nagar, a thickly populated area in west Delhi.
AAP leaders have been unsparing in their attack on the BJP that controls the three municipal corporations. Delhi has witnessed umpteen strikes by the sanitation workers of North Delhi Municipal Corporation and East Delhi Municipal Corporation as they were not paid their salaries. Things had come to such a pass that Delhi High Court had to intervene after several areas of the national capital resembled garbage dumps.
AAP led Delhi Government has put the blame squarely on the BJP ruled municipal corporations for mismanaging the money granted to them. Many top AAP leaders have asked for probe for the embezzlement of funds by the municipal bodies under the non-plan head.