Waste dumping: BJP attacks AAP, MCD says not its fault | Delhi News


NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP on Saturday targeted the Aam Aadmi Party for lapses in checking waste at the landfill after reports of the Ghaziabad mayor catching nine trucks from the capital illegally dumping garbage in that city.
Delhi BJP general secretary Harsh Malhotra, state spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor and leader of opposition in MCD Sardar Raja Iqbal Singh addressed a joint press conference on Saturday to refute AAP‘s announcements on cleaning up, saying the party secretly dumped the city’s garbage in the NCR cities of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
“AAP is trying to absolve itself of responsibility of dumping Delhi’s garbage in the neighbouring states. Delhi’s mayor Shelly Oberoi is under pressure from Delhi government and she is getting the garbage from the city taken to other states by pressuring the corporation’s garbage disposal truck company,” Malhotra alleged.
In a statement, MCD, however, clarified that it had awarded the integrated contract of bio-mining of legacy waste at Bhalswa and Ghazipur dumpsites. “Contractors are responsible for bio-mining and disposal of segregated fraction as per applicable guidelines. They have made some arrangement of disposal of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) at the waste-to-energy facility at Ghaziabad. So MCD is neither dumping any waste at Ghaziabad and nor has any MCD vehicle been used to do so. Processing of RDF is allowed at any waste-to-energy plants,” the civic body asserted.
BJP members claimed that while party MP Gautam Gambhir actually started a planned project to reduce the height of the garbage mountain at Ghazipur, Arvind Kejriwal carried out a well-hyped inspected of the site but couldn’t do anything to reduce the garbage heap.
Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said that when AAP was in the opposition in MCD, its leader Durgesh Pathak used to say that the party would clear the garbage of Delhi as soon as it came to power. “People now understand that his claim was based on the premise that they would get Delhi’s garbage thrown outside Delhi in the NCR region,” Kapoor jibed. “It is regrettable that yesterday, when the mayor of Delhi was claiming to improve the cleanliness of Delhi by launching a special campaign from July 10, the mayor of Ghaziabad, at the very same time, had caught MCD’s garbage trucks in Ghaziabad.”
Raja Iqbal Singh said that dumping of garbage in Ghaziabad was a matter of corruption because money was being paid to waste disposal companies for clearing of garbage in a scientific way, not for dumping garbage in neighbouring states.
There was no response from AAP in this regard.





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