Delhi MCD Elections 2022 Updates: Vote for AAP to end BJP's failure, misrule, says Manish Sisodia

People should vote for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to end BJP's "failure and misrule" in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), Senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia said here on Thursday. Sisodia, who held 'Nukkad Sabha' at nine wards of Aadarsh Nagar, Wazirpur and Model Town on Thursday, said AAP's vision is to make Delhi the most beautiful capital of the world in the next five years.

Rajouri Garden market is one of the city's most popular shopping destinations. But this has had its repercussions for the shop owners - parking is an everyday inconvenience both for the sellers and the shoppers. It is, therefore, among the most pressing demands of the voters of the area."It has been more than 20 years and we are still complaining about the lack of parking space. In every election, we draw the attention of the parties to the parking problems, but nothing has happened so far," said Ramesh Khanna, president, Rajouri Garden Traders' Association. READ MORE

United Residents Joint Action, a consortium of hundreds of RWAs in Delhi, in collaboration with Jhatkaa.org, an advocacy group, has launched an online petition called #VoteforTransport that focuses on the demand for a robust public transport and non-motorised transport infrastructure in the city.

The petition, signed by 6,500 people so far, focuses on MCD’s role in making roads conducive to walking and cycling for all age-groups and people with special needs.

At present, the road infrastructure discourages people from walking. In their feedback, people have stressed on consistent support from the state government for making the system robust.

Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta on Wednesday said his party will work on a war footing to eliminate the parking problem if elected to the MCD again. He claimed that BJP made over 100 modern parking lots in the capital during its third stint in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. “We have started construction of parking lots in Delhi in a planned manner. We will make more such parking lots across the city in our fourth term.”

With polling for the civic elections just a fortnight away, the biggest challenge for the newly unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi will be to bridge the liability gap of thousands of crores.MCD has liabilities of Rs 21,784.7 crore, of which Rs 6,499 crore constitutes loans, Rs 1,695 crore current pay and arrears, Rs 1,666 crore contractor payments and around Rs 11,924.8 crore, gratuity, retirement benefit, provident fund, etc. READ MORE

Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, Manish Sisodia, claimed that in the past 15 years, BJP has converted Delhi into a dumpyard. "Cleanliness in Delhi is the core responsibility of MCD, but the BJP failed miserably in managing it. Instead, it gave three garbage mountains to the national capital," Sisodia said while campaigning for the December 4 elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has worked out a four-tier campaign strategy for the MCD polls, with chief minister and party convener Arvind Kejriwal at the top and the candidates at the grassroots level to ensure that the message of “Kejriwal ki Sarkar, Kejriwal ka Paarshad (councillor)” reaches everybody.

AAP’s MCD in-charge, Durgesh Pathak, said the strategy included road shows by Kejriwal, followed by nukkad sabhas (street meetings) of senior functionaries, the MLAs reaching out to various associations, and the candidates covering as many houses as possible. “The MLAs know associations better as both are in regular touch. So they are working with different bodies such as those of traders, workers and teachers,” he said.

Senior AAP leader Manish Sisodia on Wednesday said the people of Delhi would give a "befitting response" to the BJP, which had "failed" to perform its primary responsibility during its 15-year tenure in charge of the civic body. The BJP has been in power in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) -- trifurcated in 2012 into north, south and east corporations and then unified this year -- for three straight terms.

Delhi Congress on Wednesday said it will waive off dues of private residential buildings, if voted to power in the upcoming polls to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). Launching a campaign, "House Tax - Pichhla Maaf, Agla half", the party's Delhi chief Anil Chaudhary said his party will also reduce the property tax by 50 per cent.

Residents of two Delhi neighbourhoods who recently witnessed bulldozers rumbling down their colonies have alleged the municipal corporation had been off the mark in its performance when it comes to garbage management, with many complaining that the anti-encroachment drive selectively targeted a particular community. The allegations come ahead of elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on December 4.

The Delhi BJP is expected to come out with a manifesto for MCD elections with promises of delivery of "faceless" civic services, incentivising girl child education, and rebate to women in property tax, party leaders said on Wednesday. They also said the party will have the resident welfare societies in the city employ green initiatives for a green Delhi.

State BJP president Adesh Gupta said if the party wins the MCD polls it will end the parking problem in the city by developing over 100 parking lots.Earlier, the Delhi BJP had released a 'Wachan Patra' promising to provide slum dwellers flats, like 3,024 recently handed over to Bhoomiheen Camp JJ cluster in Kalkaji area.

The Aam Aadmi Party alleged on Wednesday that there was a backlog in disbursement of salaries to sanitation workers by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. It accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of deceiving them during their 15-year tenure in the civic body.

Listing out the sanitation workers' problems. including lack of respect and danger to their lives, the AAP urged them to vote for it so that their demands can be looked into and they could lead a better life.

AAP legislator Durgesh Pathak said the BJP had control of the MCD for the past 15 years and if there was anyone who were cheated the most in this time span, then it was the sanitation workers.