Delhi municipal polls 2022: BJP’s own survey gives it 50 seats, claims AAP

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday claimed that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had conducted an internal survey that gave the latter 40-50 out of the 272 seats in the next municipal elections in 2022.
Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor, however, called AAP’s claims imaginary and baseless. “BJP has not conducted any such survey,” he claimed.
In the 2017 municipal elections, BJP had won 181 seats and came to power in all three municipal corporations in Delhi.
According to AAP’s Durgesh Pathak, the people of Delhi had made up their mind to throw BJP out of power. “In the last 15 years, BJP has ruined the corporations and turned the capital into a city of garbage,” he alleged in a statement.
AAP has been alleging that under BJP, corruption has grown in the corporations. According to Pathak, “In the last 15 years, no house has been built in Delhi from where BJP’s councillors have not taken commissions. They have destroyed the city by creating such a collection system.” He added that though the traders had been devastated due to Covid-19, the corporations had imposed 12 to 13 additional taxes.
The corporations don’t even have funds to pay salaries, said Pathak. “The municipal employees are protesting everywhere demanding their pending salaries.”
The AAP functionary claimed that “people of Delhi have decided that this time, the corporations should be given to Kejriwal and AAP. We must go to every house and unite entire Delhi on one platform and make Delhi an excellent city, a world-class city. This is only possible if both Delhi government and the corporations are under AAP”.
BJP functionary Kapoor said AAP had conducted imaginary poll surveys and declared results. Calling the world-class city promise a gimmick, he alleged, “In the 2015 and 2019 assembly polls, Arvind Kejriwal had promised to make Delhi like London and Paris. But in the last seven years, the AAP government has not given Delhi even a single flyover or road project. They promised to make Yamuna like Thames, but have made it like a drain.”