The AAP on Wednesday pledged to make Delhi a clean city, abolish house tax and end corruption if it took control of the city’s civic body in Sunday’s election. To woo nearly 90,000 sanitation workers, the party has assured that they will get their salaries by seventh of every month, while the contractual labourers would be regularised.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal released the AAP’s manifesto on Wednesday just five days ahead of the municipal polls, promising to make Delhi free of vector-borne diseases, clear garbage and put an end to corruption in the three civic bodies.
“It is a very important election. Delhi has been turned into a garbage dump by the BJP which controlled MCD for the last 10 years,” Kejriwal said, referring to the municipal corporation.
Kejriwal said that voting for the Congress in the MCD polls would be “waste of votes” after former Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh lovely joined the BJP.
“We will make Delhi clean within a year if we come to power,” he said while releasing an eight-page Aam Aadmi Party manifesto.
Kejriwal promised to use the best technology to clean up Delhi. Citing the manifesto, the AAP leader said more sanitation employees would be recruited and those on contract would get regular job. Attacking the BJP-led MCDs for its “10 years of misrule”, Kejriwal said the party which cannot take care of the city’s garbage is “incapable” of ruling the national Capital.
“Solving problems of Delhi is not their cup of tea. We will fix all these issues. The Delhi Government has put an end to water, education, health mafia. We will replicate that by dealing a heavy blow to mafias operating in the MCDs,” he said.
He said Delhi would become free of dengue and chikungunya in three years. The civic body would start the process of “desilting nullahs” in the city within a year of its victory.
He reiterated his promise to abolish residential house tax and waive off all arrears in Delhi. The party feels, it will be an important agenda in the civic polls.
On that lines, the party will straighten rules so that people can make minor changes in their residence without approaching the MCD officials. Those who have already made such amendments will be regularised under a scheme.
He flayed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for failing to provide a clean Delhi, saying it had backstabbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi by not implementing his Swachh Bharat scheme.
“It is the obligatory function of the municipal corporations to take preventive steps to stop the spread of vector borne diseases in which the BJP completely failed.”