Ahead of the December 4 civic polls, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday claimed that the BJP has deputed 17 Union ministers to fight against ‘aam aadmi’ like him, adding that this was done during his tenure in Delhi. This has been done to cover up the ‘inefficiency’ of the party. civic body.
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections are being seen as a high-stakes contest between the Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress to wrest power from the BJP, which ruled for 15 years.
Kejriwal asserted that AAP will get rid of corruption from MCD in just three to four months, if you come to power and “mark my words, you will not need to pay extra money to do your work in MCD”. “. Did a roadshow from Malka Ganj Chowk to Ghanta Ghar Chowk near Kamla Nagar.
People gathered in large numbers and the stretch was painted blue, yellow and white as they danced and sang to the beats of drums while waving AAP flags.
Kejriwal assured that all MCD employees would get their salaries in the first week of every month. He said, “It doesn’t matter how I do it, but I will arrange the money and make it possible.”
The AAP national convenor said that all the employees would be paid on time and along with this all the contractual employees would be regularised.
“They have spread garbage all over Delhi. Now we should clean the garbage in Delhi. They have created three huge mountains of garbage. They had planned to build 16 more garbage mountains in Delhi, but no garbage mountain will be built within the city limits under AAP’s rule,” Kejriwal said while attacking the BJP.
The AAP had earlier this month announced “10 guarantees” for the MCD polls, the most prominent of which was to clean up the Bhalswa, Okhla and Ghazipur landfill sites.
“We will pick up garbage from every household, clean Delhi and rid the city of mountains of garbage. No big city in the world has mountains of garbage. There should not be a mountain of garbage in Delhi as well.
Kejriwal said his party would also involve residents’ welfare associations in governance. He said, ‘Now the common people have to face collisions to get small works done. Resident Welfare Associations will be given the status of mini counselors. They can do all the work within their unions,” he said.
Kejriwal said that for this, funds and powers would be given to the Resident Welfare Associations.
It will be a “very revolutionary” step and it will change the system and the way governments run in the country, he said and appealed to the people to support AAP in the MCD elections.
“This election is not about any political party, but about the prestige and progress of Delhi. These people have made Delhi such a big dustbin that now it has become difficult for people to live here.
“You gave us the task of fixing schools, hospitals, electricity, water and governance, you have results in front of you… but waste management is under the MCD. We have to come together and find a solution to this problem.”
Kejriwal said it pained his heart to see the national capital surrounded by garbage and lamented that despite being the chief minister, “I don’t have the power to clear this garbage because of the separation of powers”.
He said, if you are given a chance to run the MCD for five years, you will “give you a shining clean Delhi”.
Attacking the BJP, Kejriwal said the party has deployed seven of its chief ministers, one deputy chief minister and 17 Union ministers for campaigning in the MCD polls.
Chief ministers Yogi Adityanath, Jairam Thakur, Manohar Lal Khattar, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Pushkar Singh Dhami, Himanta Biswa Sarma and Pramod Sawant have all left their states to campaign against the AAP for a municipal election, he said.
Kejriwal said, “(BJP chief) JP Nadda and (Union ministers) Amit Shah, Smriti Irani, Hardeep Singh Puri, Piyush Goyal and Rajnath Singh and all other bigwigs of BJP have everything on their plate to abuse us. Something is left.” Against him, “You see me as an ‘Aam Aadmi’ (common man), who is fighting it alone”.
“If these people had done some work in the last 15 years, they would not have needed a whole battalion of chief ministers and ministers to campaign against me,” he said.
Kejriwal said that the public is campaigning for you. “We did not need to bring the Punjab Chief Minister (Bhagwant Mann) here. We believe in hard work, we believe in effective governance. Mann is one of the star campaigners of the party.
Exuding confidence, he said that when BJP is contesting against AAP in Delhi, it has no chance.
“Yogi Adityanath was campaigning recently and someone asked him to tell about some work done by BJP in MCD. He was unaware. He had no answer. He called Shivraj Singh Chouhan for help, he didn’t know anything so he called Pushkar Dhami. The series went on one after the other,” Kejriwal said.
They alleged that no one knew what to say and they wanted answers as they felt humiliated on the streets.
“All of them called Nadda to ask the correct answer to the question. There was no trace of Nadda either. After that they all called Shah with questions and he went straight to the media.
The BJP argues that “they haven’t done anything in the MCD because Kejriwal doesn’t let them work”, claiming that the Delhi government had given Rs 1 lakh crore to the MCD, which was usurped by the BJP.
“If you ask their candidates about this, mark my words, they will run away in a second. To this day, they cannot tell where the money went. They did not pay MCD workers, doctors, nurses or teachers.
Kejriwal claimed that the central government was refusing to give its share of money to Delhi.
“We practically get nothing from the Center for the whole year. Do you see me crying, shouting and screaming in the streets like these clowns? Despite all challenges and all odds, we give electricity, water, education, healthcare, pilgrimage for elders, bus travel for women completely free of cost.”
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