The Delhi Congress accused the Delhi Government and municipal corporations of indulging in shadow-boxing to cover up their failures.
Congress Delhi unit president Anil Kumar said that the BJP and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Governments have woefully failed not only in checking the Covid-19 pandemic spread and deaths but also air pollution, which continues to hover around the “severe” category.
“The mayors’ dharna outside the official residence of the Chief Minister seeking Rs 13,000 crores due to the MCDs from the Delhi Government and Arvind’s claim that he was detained in his house by the police were instances to divert the people’s attention from the farmers’ protest against the three black Acts passed by the Modi Government at the Centre and the Delhi Government’s all-round failures.
Kumar said that the BJP and the Kejriwal Governments together have destroyed Delhi the Capital’s reputation of being one of the best green and clean cities in the world earned during the Congress regime. He said that the Arvind Government has cut down on development budgets for Delhi, and as a result, after Congress left power, all the development works in the Capital have come to a grinding halt.
Kumar further said that the MCDs are not even able to meet the budgetary requirements, and have also failed to tap new revenue sources, which are abundant, due to corruption.
“The Chief Minister’s refusal to meet the Mayors protesting outside his house and then claiming that the police had put him under home detention to prevent him from joining the nation-wide bandh, was a big lie. Both the BJP-ruled MCDs and the Arvind Government were deeply entrenched in corruption, and the intensity of corruption in the MCDs was exposed recently when a BJP Councillor from Vasant Kunj was caught red-handed by the CBI for demanding Rs 10 lakh bribe from a builder.
Meanwhile, leaders of all three corporations continue to sit outside the CM’s residence. Demanding immediate release of Corporation’s dues of Rs 13,000 crore from Delhi Government, Mayor of South Delhi Municipal Corporation Anamika said that protest will be continued until the Chief Minister meets us.