The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sharpened its attack against the ‘failure’ and the corruption of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led municipal Corporations in keeping the city clean.
The AAP MLAs and Councillors on Tuesday held protests across all the 70 constituencies and put more than 250 human banners all over Delhi.
Party senior leader and MCD in-charge Durgesh Pathak said, "It is very unfortunate that Delhi which is the capital of the country ranked the dirtiest city due to corruption in BJP- ruled Corporations.
“Tourists from different countries of the world come to Delhi, the Prime Minister of this country, all the Cabinet Ministers of the Central Government and all the MPs live in Delhi but the reluctance of leadership and the rampant corruption in civic bodies have made the national capital the dirtiest city,” he said.
In a recent survey, SDMC was ranked 31, north MCD (43) and EDMC ranked 46. One of the key responsibilities of the municipal corporations of Delhi to clean the city but the survey clearly shows that they have miserably failed, he said.
AAP Leader of Opposition in East Delhi Municipal Corporation Manoj Tyagi who led the protest outside the EDMC office in Patparganj said "The leaders of municipal corporation are only involved in corruption. According to the recent survey, East Delhi has been ranked 46th in the survey of 47 cities, which is the second last position in the ranking,” he said
For the last 15 years, the BJP has been governed by the Municipal Corporation, despite that there is a pile of garbage mountains in Delhi. BJP should apologize to the people of Delhi and should resign from their posts based on morality. If AAP gets the responsibility of the MCD then we will run it in the same budget," he said.
SDMC mayor Anamika said that the Delhi government agencies did not cooperate with the corporations resulting in water logging across the city.