Mayor Shelly Oberoi on Tuesday said salaries of Municipal Corporation of Delhi's sanitation workers for the month of June were credited on July 1. She also claimed this never happened during the BJP's 15-year rule in the Corporation.
Addressing a Press conference at the Civic Centre, Oberoi said there are around 30,500 full-time sanitation workers in the MCD and about 16,000 daily wagers. Terming it a "big achievement", Oberoi claimed this is the "first time" that the salaries of sanitation workers in Delhi have been credited on the first day of the month.
In another press conference later, AAP MLA and its MCD in-charge Durgesh Pathak hailed Arvind Kejriwal, saying what the BJP could not solve in 15 years, the Kejriwal-led AAP has done in "three months". He termed the crediting of salaries of sanitation workers in Delhi on the first day of the month a "big thing".
"In the last 15 years, when the BJP was ruling the corporation, they failed to pay salaries on time and they were delayed by two-three months," she alleged. Even when the salaries were credited, it would be towards the end of the month, she said. " Sanitation workers are the backbone of the MCD. We want to congratulate our sanitation workers as their salaries for the month of June were credited on the first day of July," the mayor said.
Taking a dig at Mayor Oberoi and Pathak, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor has said that it is the responsibility of the Mayor and the MCD administration to pay salaries to the municipal workers and only the leaders of propaganda based party like the Aam Aadmi Party can hold press conferences to claim paying salaries to employees as their achievement. Leader of Opposition in MCD and former Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh also slammed the AAP for making misleading statements.