Senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and MCD in-charge Durgesh Pathak on Monday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is indulging in politics over releasing the salary of its 1.25 lakh employees working in all three municipal Corporations who are on strike after not being paid for months.
Pathak said, “Today is a very significant day in the history of the MCDs because today all the 1.25 lakh employees of the three MCDs have gone for a strike. From the security guards to the PAs of the mayors, everyone is on strike and this is happening because of the corruption of the BJP. Thousands of employees of the BJP-ruled MCDs have not received their salaries for the past several months. This strike will mean that from today all the works which come under the purview of the MCDs would be stopped inside Delhi.”
“Thousands of employees and 24,000 retired employees are suffering from non-payment of salaries and pensions. People have no money for their family, children, medicine or any other needs. The massive corruption by the BJP has finished the MCDs and the people of Delhi are suffering today along with the employees of the MCDs. We believe that the BJP is doing politics over the issue of non-payment of the salary of the employees and trying to defame both the employees and the Delhi government,” he said.
The AAP leader further said, “On behalf of the AAP, I just want to tell the BJP that enough is enough. If they cannot pay the salaries of their employees after ruling the MCD for the last 14 years then they should not have any kind of moral rights to stay in the power MCD. We demand that the BJP should immediately release the salary or should resign from the MCD.”
Leader of Opposition in South Corporation said, “The BJP ruled MCD has enough money but they do not want to pay the salaries and just want to politicize the situation. The BJP does not want to do anything constructive to provide relief to its employees. In the past 14 years, the BJP has done only corruption and paralysed the MCDs.”