MCD strike: BJP protests at Delhi Secretariat

Delhi BJP leaders today staged a protest near Delhi Secretariat, demanding the AAP government stop "misleading" people and release the funds for municipal corporation employees.
Scores of protesters marched on Vikas Marg from Nirman Vihar Metro station raising slogans against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. They also burnt the effigies of Kejriwal and his cabinet colleagues.
"Kejriwal government should stop misleading people through media statements on municipal funds. We have written to the Chief Minister giving the facts on the funds that the municipal bodies have got from Delhi government and their salary bills," Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay said.
"MCDs salary bills are almost thrice above the non plan funds that have been given by Delhi government to them. We demand the government to release around Rs 3,000 crore pending funds to MCDs," he said.

Meanwhile, BJP leader Vijender Gupta said Lt Governor Najeeb Jung should take over administration of Delhi.
The Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly said that the AAP government was "intentionally" acting "against the Constitution" so that President's rule was imposed and it could go to the people saying that it was not allowed to work.
Upadhyay also charged the government with using "job terror tactics" to curb the agitation of municipal employees, especially sanitation workers by deploying PWD staff for clearing garbage.
Delhi government today deployed hundreds of PWD workers to remove garbage from across the city as nearly 60,000 sanitation workers of municipal corporations continued their indefinite strike demanding payment of their dues.