The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday alleged an ‘Advertisement Scam’ of Rs 100 crore in the municipal corporations, saying that the BJP ruled corporation allowed a private company to earn more than Rs 100 crore through gantry and flyover panel advertisements.
Bhardwaj said that this Rs 100 crore should have come to the MCD but this money was given to a private company. He said that the Supreme Court had banned gantry and flyover panel advertisements because they can distract the drivers and accidents on the DND have increased due to illegal advertisements.
“Over the last few years, the BJP-ruled MCD has repeatedly claimed that its biggest problem is the lack of revenue and depleting funds. The AAP Government gives the MCD almost double the funds compared with that of the Congress Government. Even when the Centre was directly ruling Delhi through the Lieutenant- Governor then also they were paying only half as much as we do. Despite all of this, the BJP-ruled MCD has no money,” he said.
“Doctors and teachers are not being paid. We have tried to investigate and inquire about this issue but the BJP-ruled MCD does not let anyone investigate their work. The AAP has on multiple occasions, unveiled how the sources through which MCD earned revenue have been made defunct.
The MCD is not making money from 90 per cent of the advertisement sites because the BJP has put up their own advertisements for free,” he said.
Bhardwaj further showed gantries which have been put up with the advertisements of Hyundai and County 107, ATS, among others.
“The photos were taken between September 3 and August 1. They show that the SBI, County, GL Bajaj and even the Delhi Government have put up their gantries. The money has been taken even from the Delhi Government. Such is their audacity. But there’s no account for it,” he said.