New Delhi: Politics of ‘garbage’ played a major role in the national capital on Thursday as Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal reached The BJP-run Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was targeted for failing to clean up the Ghazipur landfill site and the garbage mountain.
BJP in return hit back With the failure of the Delhi government to clean the Yamuna river and said it would highlight the sewage issues. This comes ahead of the possible announcement of MCD elections in Delhi in the coming days.
On Thursday, Kejriwal made a surprise visit to East Delhi’s Ghazipur landfill, where he launched a scathing attack on the BJP, accusing the MCD of not cleaning the “garbage mountain”.
“BJP has made entire Delhi garbage in the last 15 years. Today I have come to see his Ghazipur garbage mountain. My appeal to all Delhiites is to vote for the cleanliness of Delhi in the municipal elections this time. Together we have to make Delhi clean and beautiful,” the CM tweeted.
At the landfill site, he faced some opposition by BJP workers who waved black flags and raised slogans.
,I am a magician, I know how to win hearts (I’m a magician, know how to win hearts), The CM of Delhi made the announcement while addressing the crowd in Ghazipur.
“This time, the election will be fought on the basis of cleanliness of Delhi,” he declared, indicating that cleanliness and sanitation will be a major issue for the civic body elections.
referring to himselfshravan Kumar (a character in a Hindu epic Ramayana)” who took senior citizens on a “pilgrimage”, Kejriwal asked the gathering if they would make political attacks and abuses against their “son”.
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BJP will expose PWD sewage
BJP MP Gautam Gambhir relaxed me Kejriwal is a “liar” and claimed that the entire focus of the Delhi CM is on the elections and never on the plight of the people.
Gambhir said that since becoming an MP, he has personally visited the Ghazipur landfill site eight times. “The height of the landfill as recognized by several agencies has been reduced by several feet. We had invited the CM of Delhi to join hands many times to get rid of this mountain of garbage, but he never cared. Now that elections are around the corner, their original instincts have come into play again.”
Other BJP leaders from Delhi questioned Kejriwal’s claims of tackling pollution in Yamuna and alleged that he was trying to reach out to Purvanchali voters living in Delhi. it comes three days ago Chhath PujaWhen the devotees descended into the river to worship.
Delhi government banned organise Chhath Puja on the banks of the Yamuna last year, but the BJP was quick to label it as anti hindu,
No such restrictions have been announced for this year.
North East Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari Claimed On Thursday, the Delhi government is spraying “toxic” ammonium phosphate at Yamuna’s Kalindi Kunj Ghat to clean the river of foam.
He further alleged that BJP workers saw a group of people spraying the chemical, and when approached, they fled, leaving behind their equipment.
The police have registered an FIR by seizing 50,000 liters of the chemical, with Tiwari also claiming that he believes the group was sent at the behest of the Delhi government.
He also said that the BJP would expose the dirty sewage managed by the PWD. PWD comes under Delhi Government.
“He didn’t go to a place which is polluted, he went to a place which is a natural landfill site,” Tiwari said.
BJP Delhi chief Adesh Gupta, who probed the Chhath ghats at ITO, claimed that even after an allocation of Rs 2,500 crore from the central government, the Delhi government gave up on cleaning the Yamuna and the ghats are still dirty.
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MCD Vs Delhi Government
The face-offs between the BJP and the AAP have been frequent in Delhi in the form of clashes between the Delhi government and the MCD.
While the AAP blames the BJP-run MCD for littering the city, the BJP argues that the AAP-led Delhi government is “relentlessly lying” and has not given dues to municipalities.
you in august Guilty The MCD of Corruption claimed that Rs 6,760 crore had disappeared from the parking and conversion charges escrow account.
MCD elections are likely to be held for the first time this year after the merger of South Delhi Municipal Corporation, North Delhi Municipal Corporation and East Delhi Municipal Corporation into a unified MCD. After the delimitation, the total number of wards in the capital has been reduced from 272 to 250.
(Edited by Therese Sudeep)
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