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AAP, BJP launch cleanliness drive in Delhi
New Delhi, June 13
A day after protesting sanitation workers of East and North Delhi
called off their strike over non-payment of salaries, which had left
heaps of garbage piled up on the streets, the Aam Aadmi Party and the
BJP came out with brooms and launched a cleanliness drive on Saturday.
Blaming each other for the garbage crisis in the city, leaders of both the parties began to clean the city.
Delhi
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia along with AAP leaders Sanjay
Singh, Ashutosh and Alka Lamba took part in the cleanliness drive.
Sisodia was seen cleaning the garbage littering the streets in his constituency Patparganj.
BJP
Delhi chief Satish Upadhyay also took part in the cleaning up near
Akshardham. He blamed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for the garbage
mess.
Upadhyay said: "We have a target of 48 hours to clean Delhi."
Attacking
the BJP and the AAP, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh blamed both
AAP leader Kejriwal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said they are
"masters of nautanki".
"AAP starts cleanliness drive after
sanitation workers strike has been called off. Photo ops for AAP. Modi
and Kejriwal are masters of nautanki," tweeted Singh.
Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit said such a thing was "never witnessed" during the Congress rule.
"The
problem has been created by the AAP. It is their responsibility to keep
Delhi clean. For the 15 years, the Congress ruled Delhi never did MCD
workers not get their salaries, a proper budget was made every year,"
she said.