The AAP has promised to establish cow shelters, to run a campaign for adoption of street dogs and to rehabilitate monkeys in their natural habitat if voted to power in the MCD.
Talking about the roadmap for it, the party's chief spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj said Thursday that they will start a campaign "Be Indian, Adopt Indian" for adoption of Indian breeds of dogs. “We would like to urge the people of Delhi to adopt dogs of Indian breed – ‘Be Indian, Adopt Indian’. This is what we would like to request dog-lovers to do.
It is not as if we have any problems with dogs of foreign breeds, the people are free to adopt and take care of them as well. But since we are Indians and we have a great variety of dogs of Indian breed, we would urge people to take care of them as well. Individuals will also be encouraged to come forward and adopt Indian breeds," he said during a press conference.
Bhardwaj said that monkey menace is another big issue. "In almost all the areas of South Delhi, people are troubled by monkeys, who enter water tanks to take bath, come in the houses, open the fridge and take away food items and even attack small children. We will ensure that they are rehabilitated to their natural habitat, if we are voted to power in the MCD. One such natural habitat is at Asola," he said. Next, he spoke about how stray cows are often seen around dumpyards eating garbage.
"Their place is not there. They are supposed to be fed green fodder and for it, we will set up gow-shalas with modern technology so that they are taken care of," he said.
Bhardwaj was also asked about the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) questioning party MLA Akhilesh Pati Tripathi on Thursday in connection with poll ticket bribery case.
"The ACB should carry out a neutral investigation. The guilty should not be spared," he said.
On Tuesday, ACB arrested Tripathi's brother-in-law and his two associates for allegedly demanding Rs 90 lakh as bribe for giving ticket to AAP worker's wife in the civic polls.
A senior ACB official said that AAP MLA Tripathi was summoned by the department. He was asked to appear at 11 am and he has joined probe today and is being questioned.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had earlier this month launched party's 10 guarantees for December 4 MCD polls and one of them pertained to freeing Delhi's streets of menace of stray animals.