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At the (DDA) meeting, they (BJP) opposed payment to sanitation workers and outside they make false promises

NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and leaders of Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party is opposed to the Delhi government’s proposal of giving arrears to sanitation workers by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA).

In a meeting with Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal – who also serves as chairman of DDA – members of AAP raised the issue.

“DDA is keeping Rs 25,000 core in fixed deposits and sanitation workers are on strike for want of salaries. This money belongs to people of Delhi, as DDA has earned this by selling lands.

“I demanded in today’s meeting with LG that this money should be used for paying sanitation workers, but BJP severely opposed,” said AAP MLA Somnath Bharti, who is also a member of DDA.

Adding to this, the Chief Minister said “BJP’S dirty politics is exposed. At the meeting, they opposed payment to sanitation workers and outside they make false promises.”

Earlier, Delhi Urban Development Minister Satyendar Jain had last Thursday directed his department’s Principal Secretary and the director of local bodies to issue an instruction to the three municipal commissioners to regularise the services of contractual sanitation workers of the Bjp-ruled civic bodies.

Wednesday’s development comes a day after the Delhi assembly passed a resolution

Arvind Kejriwal asking the North, South and East Delhi Municipal Corporations to make the contractual sanitation workers permanent.

Kejriwal had directed Jain to issue necessary directions in this regard.

“It is hereby instructed that immediate directions be issued to the commissioners of all the three municipal corporations... that action be initiated for regularisation of services of all sanitation workers engaged by them,” Jain had stated in his written instruction to the Principal Secretary (Urban Development) and the director of local bodies.