BJP misleading people, employees over sanitation workers issue

The AAP today blamed the Centre and the BJP-controlled MCD for not disbursing salaries to sanitation workers and said it was a "moral and constitutional obligation" of the civic agencies to keep Delhi clean.
Thousands of municipal sanitation workers today struck work to press their demand for regular payment of salaries and clearing of arrears and held protests at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence and also at Jantar Mantar here.
Dilip Pandey, AAP's Delhi unit secretary claimed the city government had already paid the civic bodies to ensure that the employees get their salaries on time. He alleged that the BJP was "misleading" the people of Delhi and the employees of the three corporations over the issue.

The erstwhile unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was trifurcated into -- North, South and East corporations (NDMC, SDMC and EDMC) in 2012.
"When the AAP government has made it clear in the Delhi High Court that money required for the paying salaries to MCD workers has been already given to the civic agencies then why are they not saying this. Where did the money go? The matter needs to be probed," Pandey said.
"The BJP-led corporations have functionally and financially collapsed and corruption is the main reason behind this. The BJP is trying to create a confusion among people that the Kejriwal government has some role to play in it. But they forget that the municipal corporations are bound to perform constitutional function irrespective of whether they get money or not," Pandey claimed.

Demanding an "immediate" release of funds for payment of their salaries and arrears, the workers threatened to go on an "indefinite" strike if their demands were not met.

Senior AAP leader Ashutosh said it was important to answer the question as to why did civic agencies hit such a financial crisis.
"The Centre should help the the corporations, but it is not ready to help them. They are not ready to give the outstanding amount to the civic bodies, but the BJP has been targeting the AAP government over the issue every time and trying to mislead people.
"The Delhi government has paid all the money so that the employees don't have to face any kind of problem. We have given 80 per cent of the amount and we will give the remaining 20 per cent at the earliest," Ashutosh claimed.