AAP-led MCD will speed the clean-up at landfills: Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia

NEW DELHI: Municipal Corporation of Delhi will ensure speedy work at landfill sites after councillors take oath next month, said deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday. Sisodia, along with the nominated mayor candidate for Aam Aadmi Party, Shelly Oberoi, and the deputy mayor candidate, Aaley Mohammad Iqbal, visited the Okhla landfill site to inspect the progress of work.
Sisodia said he, along with Oberoi and Iqbal, would visit the city's landfill sites every week to review the work. "AAP councillors have started working even before taking oath. We visited the Okhla landfill site and inspected the progress here so far. Work needs to speed up and I am hopeful that after January 6, AAP councillors will ensure speedy work at the landfill sites," said Manish Sisodia.
Delhi BJP working president Virendra Sachdeva, however, alleged that Sisodia played a new gimmick to mislead the people of Delhi by visiting the landfill site.
"On October 20, Union home minister Amit Shah had inaugurated a waste-to-energy power plant in Tughlaqabad and from that day, all the garbage of south Delhi goes to this plant. Now, new garbage has stopped entering Okhla and 6,000 metric tonnes of inert (garbage ash) are being lifted daily from the landfill site. The municipal corporation has already declared that the site will be cleared before the G20 summit in September 2023," he said.
"Similarly, work is already going on to clean both the other landfill sites in a time-bound manner," Sachdeva added.
Taking a dig at BJP, which led MCD for three consecutive terms, Sisodia said that it would not take 15 years for AAP to clear the landfill sites. "BJP was in power for 15 years in the MCD and yet they couldn't do anything about the garbage mountains. The number of waste disposal machines will be increased at the landfill sites to expedite the work. So far, the previous government had only deceived the people of Delhi in the name of removing these sites," he claimed.