Delhi mayor being 'remote-controlled' by AAP leaders for civic governance: BJP

The BJP on Saturday alleged that Delhi mayor Shelly Oberoi sits like a dummy in municipal meetings and instead of exercising her own wisdom for civic governance is being remotecontrolled by senior AAP leaders for decisionmakingSenior BJP leader and former South Delhi mayor Kamaljeet Sehrawat made the accusations during a press conference at the saffron partys Delhi unit headquartersThere was no immediate reaction from Oberoi or the AAPOberoi either remains mute or reacts with a sense of delay as if she has received some instructions from AAP leaders like Atishi who is mostly remotely feeding information to her over mobile Sehrawat allegedIn meetings it is expected that a mayor will exercise his or her own wisdom and work with all the councillors and other leaders for the citys collective good she saidAlso readDelhi court reserves order on CBI plea seeking 3 more days of Sisodias custodyBut in the meetings with department heads and others that she attends AAP leaders Atishi and Saurabh Bhardwaj accompany her And she sits there like a gungi gudiya dummy and doesnt engage in discussions while these two AAP leaders make decisions the BJP leader claimedSehrawat said the AAP dispensation should allow the Municipal Corporation of Delhi MCD to run as per its autonomy and not try to remotecontrol civic governanceShe also alleged that the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi is trying to hand over 1400 kilometres of Public Works department roads to a private concessionaire through a Cabinet note and that the AAP dispensation is also trying to wreck the national capitals sanitation systemAnd if Mayor Shelly Oberoi sides with the AAP government on these issues and allows herself to be remotecontrolled by it then the BJP as a strong opposition will protest vehemently Sehrawat saidRepairing broken pavements central verges and manholes resurfacing roads and sprinkling water on them daily these are some initiatives that will be undertaken as part of the Delhi governments mega project to transform the city roads that will kick off from April 1The chief minister in late January had said that they would transform 1400 kilometres of roads that come under the jurisdiction of Delhis Public Works departmentDuring Saturdays press conference former East Delhi mayor Harsh Malhotra also levelled allegations against the AAP dispensation of trying to ruin the autonomy of the MCDTwo news clips were played during the briefing one related to landfill sites and the other on the meeting chaired by the mayorMalhotra claimed that the Centre has been planning to flatten the three landfill dumps in Delhi and working continuously towards it along with municipal authoritiesBut Kejriwal is trying to claim otherwiseKejriwal on Friday visited the Okhla landfill site and said the target is to remove all three mountains of garbage by December 2024Oberoi who was elected to the post of Delhi mayor on February 22 accompanied the chief minister to the landfill siteShe also instructed officials to undertake special drives to repair civicrun hospitals officials saidAccording to a statement issued from Oberois office she also chaired a meeting with senior officers of the engineering and the IT departments on Friday and took stock of various ongoing and completed projects across various domainsThe mayor said it is important for the civic agency to work together to address the issues facing the city in a timely and efficient mannerOn Thursday Oberoi chaired a review meeting with the deputy commissioners of all the 12 zones of the MCDThis 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