“We can feel the pain of the unpaid staff. Now, we will help the sanitation workers in getting their dues from the DDA”, said Manish Sisodia in a press conference held on Monday.
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“We have tried to find a solution to ongoing MCD strike”.
The BJP also condemned city’s Health Minister Satyendar Jain for using abusive language against the civic bodies’ engineering staff, who on Tuesday marched from the City Centre to Rajghat, holding bowls to beg for release of their salaries. Kejriwal said he was hopeful that the decision would satisfy everyone and put an end to the strike. The sanitation workers staged demonstrations on major roads in Delhi, including the National Highways that skirt it. Among others, traffic was blocked on east Delhi’s Vikas Marg, inconveniencing commuters.
The affidavits were in response to a PIL filed by a Delhi resident, who approached the court for orders to both parties to pay salaries to the employees.
The Delhi BJP chief said only 19 trucks of PWD and DJB have reached the landfill site and captured in CCTV at landfill sites over the last two days while the AAP government is claiming that 91 truckloads of garbage was removed from roads and community bins.
“It seems like politics now”. Earlier, the AAP government had passed a resolution requesting Mr Jung to direct the DDA to pay Rs 1,575 crore dues to the municipal corporations to help them pay salaries to their employees. The association has alleged in its application that the corporations are “giving lame, false and misleading excuses” for non-payment of salary as the MCD managements were “working for their personal gain and political motives”. “What explains the presence of mayors and BJP councillors in the protests otherwise?”
While the civic bodies and the AAP government are at loggerheads, the DDA has said that at present it has no liability pending towards the three municipal corporations in the form of service charges or property tax.
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Meanwhile, the contractors of NDMC and EDMC have also extended their support to the ongoing strike, threatening they will stop all ongoing works of the two municipal corporations from February 10.
