All three Mayors of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled corporations announced that they will run their offices from a dharna site outside the Chief Minister's residence from Monday. Mayors and leaders of the three municipal corporations has been sitting outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence for days, demanding to clear dues of `13,000 crore.
North Delhi Mayor Jai Prakash, Mayor of South Delhi Anamika Mithilesh and Mayor of East Delhi Nirmal Jain in a joint press conference informed about the move.
North Mayor Jai Prakash said that the Delhi government wants to create a state of anarchy in Delhi by not giving the outstanding funds of the three corporations.
Prakash accused the government of playing party politics keeping in mind the upcoming corporation elections. He said that due to non release of funds by Delhi government, all development works in Delhi have stopped and corporations are facing lot of problems even in timely release of salaries of their employees.
SDMC Mayor Anamika said that they failed to meet Delhi Chief Minister on the fifth consecutive day. Mayor said that AAP leaders are not bothered about the ongoing fund crisis in MCDs resulting in delay of salary payment of employees. They are only showing their sympathy for farmers sitting at Delhi borders but no sympathy for councillors sitting outside his residence since the last five days,” she said.
Anamika further said that employees of all three civic agencies will also join the protest if Delhi Government fails to meet our demand of immediate release of outstanding money.
“Salaries of frontline workers like healthcare staff, safai karmis, DBC workers, teachers, etc are pending since long. Delhi Government must show sympathy towards them and should release its dues,” she said.