Delhi Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) continued their protest outside Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s house demanding the release of the outstanding fund of Rs 13,000 crores for the tenth day
The opposition leaders in Delhi addressed the press conference from the dharna site and exposed the malicious functioning of the Kejriwal government.
State Vice President Rajiv Babbar, State Treasurer Vishnu Mittal and State Media Head Naveen Kumar were present.
Delhi State President Adesh Gupta said that, there is frustration and despair within the Aam Aadmi Party of Delhi today and in this desperation, they are making unwarranted and ludicrous allegations of Rs 2500 crore scam on the North and South Delhi Municipal Corporations. “We challenge CM Arvind Kejriwal to get the CBI or any independent agency to investigate the allegations leveled against the municipal corporations and if the allegations turn out to be false, the CM should be ready to resign. Corporation leaders are sitting on a dharna outside the CM's residence to demand the rights of the corporation workers under the open sky in the cold winter, the continuous campaign of the BJP has established the fact that in the last 6 years , Delhi Jal Board, under the patronage of Kejriwal government, both the political leadership and officials have scammed not only the capital of the Jal Board but also the loan money of Rs 50,000 crore received from it. The Delhi BJP President has said that, the people of Delhi very well know that a proposed settlement of rent dues between two constitutional bodies North & South DMCs does not involve transaction of a single penny and hence involves no scam.”
Gupta said that, Municipal Corporation of Delhi was trifurcated in 2012 and in this trifurcation East & North DMCs got their own buildings to house their Head Quarters but South DMC did not get a office. The then Delhi Government of Sheila Dikshit so manipulated the affairs that South DMC got space to house its headquarters in the Civic Centre owned by North DMC.
Sheila Dikshit’s Government fixed a high commercial value rent amount which South DMC was supposed to pay to North DMC.
He said that, CM Kejriwal wants to create a state of anarchy in Delhi. Ever since the Arvind Kejriwal government came to power, it has consistently cut constitutional funds of municipal corporations.
Ever since Arvind Kejriwal Government came to power in Delhi it stopped paying full regular constitutional funds to the Municipal Bodies. The Delhi Government did not implement the 4th Delhi Finance Commission recommendations on municipal funds thus paying hardly 50 percent of actually due funds. In fact in the current financial year 2020-21 Delhi Government has released hardly 25% of due funds even as 3/4 year has gone by. He said that, the Delhi government officials appointed in the corporation made a provision within the budget that the dues of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation should be reduced to zero but the standing committee of the corporation rejected that proposal and this time also no such proposal has been accepted.
He said that a special session of one day assembly has been convened tomorrow, but Kejriwal has not called a special session till date to save Delhi, especially when the people were struggling with Corona. It has been proved that baseless allegations have been leveled against corporations because the Kejriwal government wants to stop the constitutional funds of the municipal corporations and divert public attention from the corruption of Delhi Jal Board. The people of Delhi have come to know the truth of CM Kejriwal and are not going to caught into his trap.
Slamming CM Kejriwal, MP Meenakshi Lekhi said that, "Dikha Di Hai Isteyaron Ne Kuch Chehron Ki Haqiqat, Jo Topi Pehankar Topi Pehnane Ka Kaam Karte Hain." The Aam Aadmi Party has put up posters of the allegations leveled against the corporation, but has not put its name anywhere, because they too know that these allegations are false and are fraudulent with the people of Delhi which lead to defamation case. She said that before partition there was only one corporation and after partition in 2012 the EDMC had its own office, NDMC had Pt Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Bhawan and SDMC had a land in Dwarka. In which no office was built. On 16 March 2012, it was decided in the Cabinet that till the office is built, the SDMC will run the office from Pt. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Bhavan. The real issue is the corporation's dues of Rs 13,000 crore and to divert from the issue, the Govt is making unwarranted charge of scam of Rs 2500 crore.