Kejriwal wapas jao': BJP workers protest against Delhi CM during Ghazipur visit

MCD elections proposed in early 2023!

On Thursday, The BJP workers, protesting against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's visit to Ghazipur landfill site, raised 'Kejriwal wapas jao' slogans . 

Delhi chief Minister Arvind Kehriwal visits one of the national capital's largest garbage dumps ahead of upcoming elections to Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).

Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party has been targeting the BJP over the mismanagement of the three landfill sites in Delhi ahead of the municipal elections, the first since the formation of MCD. 

Elections to that unified MCD are likely by the end of this year or in early 2023.

Ahead of Kejriwal's visit, BJP workers protested with black flags and raised slogans, while the AAP workers, who have gathered in large numbers, raised slogans against the BJP.

Recently, the AAP also alleged a scam or a loss of Rs 84 crore by the MCD on account of allotting a tender to a company for garbage processing at a landfill site. It said that the tenders were awarded at an 'inflated rate' in 2020.

The AAP has made sanitation the central issue, pointing towards the "mountains of garbage" as signs of BJP's failure even after ruling the MCD for 15 years. 

Recently, Kejriwal claimed that the people of Delhi would reject the BJP in the upcoming MCD polls and give a chance to AAP to clean up the national capital. He also challenged the BJP to give a record of the work it has done in the past 15 years.

In 2017, the BJP won 181 seats out of 272 seats in the erstwhile south, north, and east Delhi municipal corporations. In the unified MCD, the number of seats has been fixed at 250