Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia visited the Okhla landfill in Delhi on Wednesday. , Photo credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday said the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will work on a “war footing” to fulfill Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s promise of eliminating the three landfills after the mayoral elections are over on January 6.
On an inspection of the Okhla landfill with the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) candidates for mayor and deputy mayor, Mr Sisodia said getting rid of the landfill and beautifying the city was AAP’s priority, and promised that he would work on the sites. Will monitor per week.
“Cleaning the mountains of garbage in Ghazipur, Okhla and Bhalswa was not a priority of the previous government. Hence the height of these landfill sites kept increasing in the last 15 years. But now, under the leadership of Arvind Kejriwal, we are ready with an action plan to eliminate these garbage dumps,” the AAP leader said.
Cleaning the landfill was an election issue on which AAP fought and won the municipal elections earlier this month. Mr Kejriwal and Mr Sisodia had visited the Ghazipur landfill during the elections and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of misappropriating funds to clean the landfill when they were in power in the civic body.
Besides winning the MCD elections with a majority of 134 wards out of 250, the AAP had won all the three wards – Kalyanpuri, Jahangirpuri and Tughlakabad – where the three landfills are located.