AAP to Begin Month-Long Campaign to Highlight MCD’s “Failures” Under BJP
GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 14th September. The AAP is all set to launch a month-long campaign to highlight the BJP-controlled civic body’s “failures” in the national capital, organising trips for the public to three infamous garbage hills located at the city borders.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Delhi Environment Minister and AAP city unit convener Gopal Rai announced the party’s decision, saying that in the first phase of the campaign, party leaders will take people to the three landfill sites — Ghazipur, Okhla, and Bhalswa — to show them the “biggest achievement” of the BJP, which has ruled the municipal corporation in the national capital for 15 years.
The trips to the three “mountains of garbage” will take place over three days beginning Wednesday, with the theme “BJP ka chamatkar dekho, kude ka pahad dekho” (See the BJP’s miracle, see the garbage hills), according to the AAP leader.
If garbage dumping is stopped immediately, it will take at least 27 years to clear the landfill sites, according to “the BJP’s style” of work at the current pace and plan.
“The people of Delhi gave the BJP an opportunity to rule the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) for 15 years, but the party completely failed in fulfilling its first and foremost responsibility, which is maintaining cleanliness. It has only given them garbage and dirt spread all across the city,” Rai alleged.
He claimed the cleanliness in Delhi has gone from “bad to worse” since the municipal polls were postponed in the garb of unification of the three erstwhile civic bodies, even as “the BJP’s top leadership took the command promising to bring a miraculous change” in the functioning of the MCD.
According to Rai, party leader Atishi will take the public to the Ghazipur landfill site on September 14, while Saurabh Bharadwaj will lead the visit to Okhla on September 15. On September 16, people will be taken to the Bhalswa landfill site under the leadership of Durgesh Pathak “so that they see the situation there and understand the problems of the people living in the vicinity”.
“The people are fed up as they do not know where to register their grievances. Hence, the party has decided to organise the campaign in multiple phases. We won’t let Delhi continue to remain in such a situation,” Rai told reporters.
“Either garbage or the BJP will leave Delhi,” he said.
The MCD, which was formed by the merger of three former civic bodies a few months ago, is under the jurisdiction of the BJP-led central government.
The BJP ruled the three former municipal corporations, and the AAP was the main opposition party until the civic bodies’ terms expired in May.
Elections to form a new civic body have yet to take place, as an exercise to delimit municipal wards is underway.
The Centre-established Office of the Delimitation Committee announced on Tuesday that work on the draft delimitation of MCD wards had been completed and invited people to submit suggestions and objections.
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