TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday hit out at the Kejriwal government, accusing it of “hampering” the functioning of MCDs, starving them by not providing their due funds amounting to Rs 9,000 crore. The senior BJP leader campaigning for party candidates in northwest Delhi’s Kirari area said that the Aam Aadmi Party does not have the “moral right” to level allegations against the three municipal corporations.
Singh said the Congress and the AAP, which have ruled Delhi for 15 years and two-and-a-half years respectively, have “muddied Delhi and people know the lotus (the BJP’s poll symbol) blooms only in mud”. “The AAP and the Congress say that the BJP has ruled municipal corporations for 10 years and did not work. How would the BJP-ruled MCD work when the AAP government did not provide funds to the civic bodies.
“Our MCD leaders repeatedly requested the government to release funds, but it (Kejriwal government) did not give it,” the senior BJP leader said.He said that the Finance Commission had recommended Rs 9,000 crore for the MCD, but the AAP government only releasedRs 2,800 crore, adding that “in this situation, how would MCD work? They (AAP) do not have moral right to point fingers at us.”
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