BJP to move court against AAP-led MCD’s decision to regularise 5,000 sanitation workers

The house of Municipal Corporation on October 31 passed the proposal to regualrise 5,000 sanitation workers amid protests from Opposition parties.

AAP MCD in-charge Durgesh Pathak has slammed the BJP for going against the well-being of safai karamcharis (sanitation workers). “BJP only regularised 110 safai karamcharis in 2017, 190 in 2018, 294 in 2019, 198 in 2020, and 408 in 2021 and the AAP government has already regularised 6,494 safai karamcharis within eight months,” he told reporters on Sunday.

The AAP is repeatedly spreading lies to portray that the BJP is against making the safai karamcharis permanent, Singh said responding to Pathak’s claims.

Meanwhile, Sanjay Gehlot, chairman of the Delhi Commission for Safai Karamcharis, has also questioned the AAP’s claims of regularising the sanitation workers. He asserted that the sanitation workers were already regularised in 2013–14.

“In accordance with a policy made in 2004, the MCD had already regularised the 5000 safai karamcharis in 2013-14 but due to some financial liabilities, the regularised workers were still receiving the payroll of a temporary safai karamchari and the matter was being challenged in court,” he said.

“I have been receiving calls from safai karamcharis to check if they have been regularised. Some of them have been working on temporary posts for the past 25 years. It was extremely disheartening to inform them that no new safai karamcharis have been regularised,” Gehlot said.