AAP's clean-up act

Delhi's safai karamcharis - those who remove garbage - were on strike for 12 days and are now back at work. In order to get some mileage from the strike, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders decided they would clear the garbage if the karamcharis were not doing so. But the mountain of garbage - which had been piling up for 11 days - was not that easy to clear. In many places, AAP leaders found it a daunting task. Even more daunting was answering the taunts of the locals - they wondered where AAP had been for 11 days and why they'd only turned up when the safai karamcharis announced they were calling off the strike. In Krishna Nagar, represented by AAP MLA S K Bagga, people turned on him when he reached there with his 'jhaadu' (broom). "Where were you all these days?" people asked. Ashish Khetan, also from AAP, had to face similar queries.