AAP MANIFESTO PROMISES TO GARBAGE-FREE DELHI BY 2019
Moreover, services rendered by the MCDS will be made available online
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday released the party’s manifesto for the Municipal Corporation elections, wherein the party promised to make the city ‘garbage-free’ by shutting all landfills by 2019 and contain vector-borne diseases.
It also promised to end corruption in the three civic bodies, as well abolish house tax.
Kejriwal, while launching the manifesto, said that services rendered by the Municipal Corporations of Delhi (MCDS) will be made available online to reduce corruption and a common redressal helpline number will also be launched.
Citing the ‘poor’ condition of Mcd-run schools, he said that quality of teaching would be enhanced and nursery and KG classes in Mcdrun schools would be started.
Kejriwal also promised to provide free treatment and medicines in Mcd-run healthcare facilities and improve their quality.
To woo nearly 90,000 sanitation workers, the party has assured that they will get their salaries by the seventh of every month, while contractual labourers would be regularised.
Kejriwal also assured to give protective gears to sanitation workers, along with a health insurance scheme and Rs 50,000 fixed deposit for their daughters.
To end parking woes in the city, Kejriwal said the issue will be addressed through surface, multilevel and underground parking facilities. He also reiterated on his promise to abolish residential house tax and waive off all arrears in Delhi.
During the launch, he also launched scathing attack on BJPled MCDS for ‘10 years of misrule’.
“People have even backstabbed their own Prime Minister (Narendra Modi), despite his call for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The party which cannot take care of the city’s garbage is incapable of ruling the national capital,” Kejriwal stated.
“Solving problems of Delhi is not their cup of tea. We will fix all these issues. The Delhi government has put an end to water, education and health mafia. We will replicate that by dealing a heavy blow to mafias operating in the MCDS,” he said.
Kejriwal said that voting for the Congress in the MCD polls would be “waste of votes” after former Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely joined the BJP.
“Many Congress leaders are joining BJP. I came to know that Ajay Maken talked to Amit Shah and he may also join BJP after the Municipal polls,” the AAP leader said.
Meanwhile, after a meeting with Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Kejriwal stressed the need for an alliance of “all good people” to fight the BJP. “There is an atmosphere of fear. The business community, industrialists, media people or commoners, everybody is afraid of the situation in this country, which is wrong,” the Delhi CM said.