AAP leaders clean up the streets of Delhi as municipality workers continue strike.
Hours after the Delhi's ministers descended on Delhi's roads armed with brooms, striking sanitation workers had a face-off with Public Works Department or PWD staff, who had been pressed into the clean-up job. Garbage has been piling up on Delhi's roads following the indefinite strike started by sanitation workers five days ago.
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Several AAP ministers and lawmakers today took part in cleanliness drive in their constituencies and helped clean up garbage.
Among them were deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, Tourism Minister Kapil Mishra and lawmaker Vijendra Garg. Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel also led a team in Shahdara area.
But in East Delhi's Patparganj, a confrontation started between the sanitation workers and the PWD workers, who had come to clean up as per the deputy chief minister's orders.
The MCD workers raised slogans in protest and didn't let the PWD staff work. They fear that a clean-up by the PWD staff will take the edge off their strike. Patparganj is Mr Sisodia's constituency.
Mr Sisodia said the PWD staff has been put into action so that Delhi-ites "do not have to live in such garbage." More than 2,000 DJB employees also joined forces with them.
Sanitation workers of the three civic corporations of Delhi went on an indefinite strike demanding timely payment of salaries and immediate payment of dues on January 27.
On Thursday, they had a demonstration outside Mr Sisodia's office and dumped at least 2 truckloads of garbage on the road there, bringing them in wheelbarrows for nearly three hours.
The Delhi government has accused the BJP of "instigating" the workers to throw garbage outside the residences and offices of its ministers.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal says he supports the MCD employees' demand. The Delhi government claims it has disbursed the money and it is the fault of the BJP, which controls all three of Delhi's civic bodies, that the workers have not received it.
The BJP has accused the AAP-controlled Delhi government of starving the civic corporations of funds, leading to the present crisis.
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