The AAP has decided to launch ‘Kooda Virodhi Abhiyan’ from Wednesday to October 14 against the BJP ruled municipal corporation failure of sanitation and garbage management in the national Capital.
Addressing a joint press conference, the AAP leaders, Gopal Rai, Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj, said the situation of garbage in Delhi was always bad but it has drastically worsened over the last six months.
Rai said that Every MLA in Delhi is doing their best for the development of their constituency but they are in a limbo on the issue of garbage.
“Hence, we have decided to start a statewide mission from September 14th to October 14th against the BJP’s MCD for turning Delhi into ‘kooda-kooda’. We will not let Delhi remain in this condition. Either the BJP will have to remove the garbage in Delhi or they have to remove themselves from the MCD. There is no midway,” said Rai.
“The Kooda Virodhi Abhiyan will have several phases. The first phase will begin tomorrow. The first phase of the Mission will be of three days with title ‘BJP ka chamatkar dekho, kudde ka pahad dekho’. We are inviting the people of Delhi to come to Ghazipur landfill site on September 14. Atishi will be leading the people to the site so that they can get to know about the lives of people living around the mountain of garbage,” said Rai.
“On September 15, Saurabh Bhardwaj will lead the people to the Okhla landfill site. Durgesh Pathak will take the people to Bhalswa landfill site on September 16. Subsequently, we will run the event movement in a phase wise manner,” said Rai. The AAP spokesperson, Bhardwaj said that Delhi has been suffering due to the problem of garbage mismanagement for a very long time but in the last six months, the problem has worsened exponentially.
“The main problem behind this is the absence of councillors. When we had councillors, they owed accountability to the public. Ex-councillors can’t fundamentally serve them. Now people come with complaints to the MLAs but the MCD has no responsibility towards MLAs so they don’t listen to us,” said Bharadwaj.
Atishi said that for the last 15 years, the BJP has been ruling the MCD and the state of sanitation is deteriorating all over Delhi day by day. “Be it any gully mohalla, unauthorised colony or elite gated society, you’ll only find garbage thrown around.
Not a single resident of Delhi is safe from the garbage mismanagement of Delhi. Going by their current pace, these landfills won’t be cleared within the next 200 years,” said Atishi.