Ending corruption in MCD among AAP's 10 guarantees for municipal polls

Clearing the three landfill sites a corruptionfree civic body and relief from the stray menace form the backbone of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwals 10point guarantee for the MCD pollsThe AAP national convener on Friday announced 10 guarantees for residents of the national capital ahead of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi MCD electionsHe also referred to the guarantees as nothing less than Fevicol ka jodThrough these guarantees Kejriwal presented a blueprint to make Delhi the best global cityTaking on the BJP Kejriwal asserted that the saffron party would not win more than 20 seats in the highstakes contest on December 4Kejriwal said the BJP which has governed the civic body for the last 15 years released a sankalp patra and threw it in the trash after the electionsAfter December 7 their wachan patra pledge letter will also meet the same fate In the last elections the BJP said they would clear out the garbage mountains now they say every city has these Do London Tokyo New York Washington and Paris have garbage mountains he askedAlso read Andaman exChief Secy remanded to police custodyKejriwal said the people of Delhi were eagerly awaiting the elections so that they could bring the AAP to powerThe incumbent MCD government has cheated the people of Delhi AAP gives guarantees Our guarantees are like Fevicol ka kod he saidHe also announced that the APP would fulfil each guarantee before the next electionsUnder the first guarantee Kejriwal said Delhis garbage mountains would be cleared and the city beautifiedWe will also shelve their BJPs plan of building 16 new garbage mountains We will call experts from London Paris Tokyo to work this out We will clean up the roads and galis alleys of Delhi he saidThe AAP has long alleged that the BJP during its tenure in the MCD had planned to create 16 landfill sites alongside the three existing ones at Ghazipur Okhla and BhalswaAssuring that the MCD would be rid of corruption as part of the second guarantee Kejriwal claimed that the building department was the most corruptionprone and the process of clearing all plans and maps would be digitised and simplifiedLike faceless governance in the Delhi government we will do something solid here too We will bring a onetime scheme to regularise minor violations in buildings he saidThe third fourth and fifth guarantees include solving the parking crisis ending the strayanimal menace and repairing roads under the MCDThere are a lot of stray cows dogs and monkeys that cause problems for residents We will bring a solution for them too All MCD roads are dilapidated today We will repair them and ensure that they no longer hinder anyones commute he saidSchools dispensaries and hospitals of the MCD are in disrepair Kejriwal said and promised to transform them like we have done under our government under the sixth guaranteeNoting that the parks under the MCD are a disaster Kejriwal said he intended to give a facelift to them and make Delhi a city of beautiful parksThe eighth guarantee is regularisation of contract workers Many employees are not paid for months they will all be paid on time No matter how we arrange funds everyone will get their salaries within the first week of the month he saidAlleging that traders were under severe distress due to the bribes that need to be paid to obtain a licence he said the AAP planned to simplify and digitise the systemWe will end conversion and parking fees We will end the inspector raj We will open up all the sealed shops and hear all the concerns of traders and resolve them he saidUnder the tenth guarantee Kejriwal promised to grant licences to hawkers to sit in vending zonesWe will make vending zones for hawkers so they do not get hassled like they do now The Delhi government had made the policy many years ago but the MCD never implemented it We will give licences to hawkers to sit in these vending zones and support them to live a life without fear and corruption he saidKejriwal also raised the issue of free yoga classes and campaigns such as Red Light On Gaadi Off he appealed to the electorate to not cast their votes for people who obstruct progressVote for the ones who will bring progress Dont vote for the ones who stopped yoga vote for the ones who started yoga Vote for the ones who made schools for your children not for the ones who fight and abuseDont vote for those trying to stop Delhi Delhi must grow Vote for those who will help Delhi grow Dont vote for those who want to harm this nation vote for those who want to make India number one he saidAAP leaders have exuded confidence during the course of the election campaign and predicted a landslide victory Kejriwal echoed their sentiment and said This time around the BJP will go on to win less than 20 seats I can give this to the media in writingThe chief minister also alleged that the elections to the MCD and the Gujarat Assembly were being held at the same time to stop the AAPBut we will win both Gujarat Assembly and MCD polls Kejriwal saidThe BJP has been in power in the MCD trifurcated in 2012 into north south and east corporations and then unified this year for three straight terms Results of the elections to the 250ward MCD will be declared on December 7This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever