BJP MLA Anil Bajpai has stirred a controversy after his letter to the Lieutenant-Governor seeking a CBI probe into "illegal" allotment of garbage collection centres by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has surfaced on social media.
Bajpai, the Gandhi Nagar MLA, is at loggerheads with his own party leader and East Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir, whose foundation has been using the MCD's garbage collection centres, called ‘dhalaos’, as free-meal kitchens in his constituency.
A library named Shahid Bhagat Singh Jan Library, set up in an abandoned ‘dhalao’ in Priya Vihar, also in Gambhir's constituency, is slated to be inaugurated by Union Home Minister Amit Shah later this month, an aide of the MP said. "This is to inform you that in some Assembly constituencies of East Delhi, the space allotted for ‘dhalaos’ has been converted into kitchen, library and other things, and ownership has been given to an individual having his NGOs and also to private organisations," Bajpai wrote in his letter.
The MLA, however, said he had written letter on July 25 and that he does not know how letter has grabbed attention now.
Sources in the BJP said the matter has been conveyed to senior leaders and a development in this connection can be expected in a couple of days.
In the letter, the MLA claimed that due to such allotment of dhalaos to individuals, NGOs, and private organisations, sanitation workers were finding it difficult to collect garbage in some areas.
Strict punishment should be given to those involved after the CBI probe, the letter further read.