AAP leader Durgesh Pathak on Sunday alleged that the BJP-ruled Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is making a mockery of Safai Karamcharis by regularising only 187 out of 27,098 eligible contractual employees.
Pathak said that crores were spent on a program to have Delhi LG handover appointment letters to 187 employees and rub salt on the wounds of Safai Karamcharis.
“It is shameful and shocking that BJP has put up hoardings all over Delhi to advertise regularisation of just 187 employees.
Be it their 2017, 2012, 2007 or 2002 manifesto, BJP has always cheated the Safai Karamcharis by making false promises of regularisation. Safai Karamcharis only face disappointment and deceit after every election when BJP refuses to regularise them.
AAP demands BJP to regularise all MCD Safai Karamcharis or else be prepared for a crushing defeat,” said Pathak, while addressing a press conference. “The Safai Karamcharis are the very backbone of the sanitation system of Delhi.
They are the ones protecting us. Yet, they face such injustice. Safai Karamcharis don’t receive their pay for as long as 3-4 months.
There are 27,098 Safai Karamcharis waiting for regularisation. But till date, in these two decades, the BJP has only regularised 187 Safai Karamcharis in MCD. This is not just unfair to these people but a mockery of their hard work and penance,” said Pathak.
“The Safai Karamcharis have protested all over Delhi at this point. Jantar Mantar, Parliament, MCD Headquarters, Adesh Gupta’s House, you name the place, you’ll find them agitating for their rights. After every protest, BJP leaders come to fool them, and say they’ll be regularised next month,” he alleged.