Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders on Monday staged a protest at the Civic Centre against BJP-ruled municipal corporations for not paying the salaries to municipal employees.Party leaders and councillors demanded immediate payment of salaries to the employees of the civic bodies. AAP councillor and Leader of Opposition in North Delhi Municipal Corporation, Vikas Goel, alleged that MCD employees have not got salaries for the last two-three months.
"Diwali is just two days away and the MCD employees be it sanitation workers, DBC (domestic breeding checkers) workers, teachers, nurses among others are waiting for their salaries. They have not been paid for the past two-three months. This is injustice to them. We demand immediate release of salaries of civic employees," Goel said during the protest. He said all AAP councillors and workers have gathered here to mount pressure on civic authorities to release salaries of MCD employees ahead of the festival.