CPI(ML) Delhi State Committee condemned strongly the current impasse between Govt of Delhi and three Municipal Corporations on the issue of payment of salaries of employees especially of sanitation workers.
It is to be noted that the Commissioners of three corporations as per minutes of meeting held on January 15 with Chief Minister have accepted that they have received this year’s non-plan funds from which salary was supposed to be paid.
The employees of three municipal corporations have been at the receiving end of this petty politicking on part of BJP led Corporations while Central government’s deliberate silence on the issue only facilitating the present impasse. Their salaries have not been distributed for months and they are on strike demanding salaries. Along with employees, the people of Delhi’s daily life have got a hit with garbage piling in city and with regular municipal and even health services coming to standstill with doctors and health employees of MCD joining the agitation.
CPI(ML) Delhi state secretary Ravi Rai has said in an statement that it’s not difficult to see that current impasse has more political connotations than merely financial aspects with elections in three corporations due at the end of year. The BJP is trying to hide its failures in Municipal corporations in Delhi in particular and of its central government’s in general, behind such petty politicking which is not going to yield anyway. On the other hand, instead of merely relying on politics of posturing against Central Govt, had the AAP govt. implemented its own promise of regularisation of Delhi’s contractual employees on priority, the ongoing discourse in Delhi’s politics would have been quite different today.
CPI(ML) extends its solidarity with striking workers and demands that their salaries should be cleared immediately. The current impasse must be resolved by all sides, including Central Govt, Delhi Govt. and all three Municipal Corporations, keeping interests of people of Delhi in mind whose daily life has taken a hit.
