BJP Calls For CBI Investigation Into Delhi Drain Desilting ‘Scam’, AAP Points Finger At Officials

New Delhi: Alleging a “rip-off of enormous quantities of crores of rupees” in the drain desilting work simply by the Aam Aadmi Birthday occasion-led authorities’s companies in Delhi, the Bharatiya Janata Birthday occasion (BJP) on Thursday demanded a Important Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the depend quantity.

The BJP’s Delhi unit president Virendra Sachdeva pointed out, “Corruption and loot of the AAP-led Delhi authorities and the MCD (Municipal Seller of Delhi) are guilty for the deaths of three civil offerings aspirants in a flooded basement library of a instructing centre in Out of date Rajinder Nagar and distinctive rain-linked incidents in the town”.

In response, AAP pointed out the questions the BJP became asking had been ancient and further that it became Urban Development Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj who had pressed for a 0.33-occasion audit of the desilting work.

The minister directed Chief Secretary Naresh Kumar in May to produce a document of drains that had been desilted for verification, AAP pointed out in a declaration.

Delhi Authorities’s Irrigation And Flood Manipulate

Sachdeva pointed out that in 2022-23, the Delhi authorities’s irrigation and flood organize and public works departments eradicated three lakh metric ton and two lakh metric ton silt from drains, respectively. The MCD and the Delhi Jal Board eradicated two lakh metric ton and forty,000 metric ton silt, respectively, all thru that duration.

“With the reduction of this estimate, in 2024, these companies will deserve to have lifted around 8-9 lakh metric ton silt from the drains. I make a ramification to ask Delhi ministers Atishi, Saurabh Bharadwaj and Mayor Shelly Oberoi if the drains had been desilted this 12 months and where the eradicated silt went,” Sachdeva pointed out. He claimed that there became no doc of cars carrying silt eradicated from the drains achieving Singhola in Narela where it truly is some distance dumped or the town’s three landfill details superhighway sites.

“There may good be a rip-off of enormous quantities of crores of rupees in the drain desilting exercising,” he alleged and demanded a Important Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into it.

The total town is in a “mess” introduced on by this “loot” of crores of rupees, he charged. Strict motion desires to be taken against officers anxious and the target of the AAP dispensation should additionally be checked out, the Delhi BJP president pointed out.

AAP’s Response Against BJP Allegations

Responding to the allegations, AAP pointed out that inspite of a reminder from Bharadwaj on June 5, the chief secretary failed to ship the document of the desilted drains. The ruling occasion alleged that Kumar, the chief secretary, became practically in regards to the BJP and made in most situations a whole lot of excuses to defend away from sharing the document.

“This additionally way that the chief secretary had an recommendation that desilting became now not taking place on the ground,” it claimed.

AAP pointed out that Bhardwaj, all thru a June assembly of all companies guilty for desilting, had pointed out a whole lot of the work became done best on paper and largely talking acknowledged as for a 0.33-occasion audit. Delhi Severe Court had formed the Developed-in Drain Administration Cellular, headed simply by the chief secretary, and categorically directed that these efforts have got to be proven thru a 0.33-occasion audit, it further.

“On the grounds that, the chief secretary is exposed and this depend quantity is in the public domain, the BJP is attempting to shift the blame on the authorities, ” AAP alleged.

Kumar, in a take into accout to Bharadwaj on Wednesday, recommended that the irrigation and flood organize division usual secretary had been directed to submit a factual take into accout on the 0.33-occasion audit. Every of the companies centred on desilting of drains had been additionally directed now not to make payments to contractors till the audit, Kumar had pointed out in the take into accout.

(With inputs from companies)