<p>Motorists fumed as traffic crawled on the Vikas Marg and other east Delhi roads on Friday morning as salary-demanding sanitation worker of the BJP-run civic agency littered garbage in public spaces.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The workers did this as a token protest near colony of Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s house.<br /><br />The jams started around 10 am and caused pile-ups on all roads linked to Laxmi Nagar, Preet Vihar, Karkardoom, Patparganj and National Highway 24 going towards Ghaziabad. <br />“I was caught up in the grid lock for two hours in the morning. The situation lasted for over three hours,” said Anirudh Sharma, a private firm employee who was coming to work in the capital from Vaishali.<br /><br />The nearly 100 sanitation workers, who formed about a dozen groups, emptied their mini-garbage vans on roads and littered trash on roads, in colonies and near community bins in the area to protest the non-payment of their salaries by the civic agency.<br /><br />The BJP ruled East Delhi corporation blames the AAP government’s “denial” of financial aid to the cash-strapped civic body for its failure to pay salary to sanitation workers. <br />Sisodia said the government was not going to yield to unfair demands of the “corruption-riddled” civic agencies.<br /><br />“They are trying to spread the dirt of corruption,” he told reporters.<br /><br />An agitating sanitation worker said if the salary money was not released by the Delhi government they would protest right outside Sisodia’s home in Patparganj. <br /><br />Garbage cleared<br />“Today we just held the protest near his colony,” said a sanitation workers’ union leader, adding that the garbage littered by them was later cleared by their colleagues.<br /><br />On Thursday, over 120 councillors of the three BJP-led corporations – North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC), and East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) – including senior party leaders marched to the Raj Niwas from Chandi Ram Akhara shouting slogans seeking the release of funds by the Delhi government for the civic agencies.<br /><br />Delhi Police, however, said that only 10 to 15 people were involved in the protest and had brought garbage in hand carts. <br /><br />“They were demonstrating at Laxmi Nagar and Nirman Vihar traffic signal. Due to this, traffic was heavy in the carriageway from Laxmi Nagar towards ITO. <br /><br />Motorists were told to avoid Vikas Marg and use National Highway-24,” said a police officer.<br /></p>
<p>Motorists fumed as traffic crawled on the Vikas Marg and other east Delhi roads on Friday morning as salary-demanding sanitation worker of the BJP-run civic agency littered garbage in public spaces.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The workers did this as a token protest near colony of Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s house.<br /><br />The jams started around 10 am and caused pile-ups on all roads linked to Laxmi Nagar, Preet Vihar, Karkardoom, Patparganj and National Highway 24 going towards Ghaziabad. <br />“I was caught up in the grid lock for two hours in the morning. The situation lasted for over three hours,” said Anirudh Sharma, a private firm employee who was coming to work in the capital from Vaishali.<br /><br />The nearly 100 sanitation workers, who formed about a dozen groups, emptied their mini-garbage vans on roads and littered trash on roads, in colonies and near community bins in the area to protest the non-payment of their salaries by the civic agency.<br /><br />The BJP ruled East Delhi corporation blames the AAP government’s “denial” of financial aid to the cash-strapped civic body for its failure to pay salary to sanitation workers. <br />Sisodia said the government was not going to yield to unfair demands of the “corruption-riddled” civic agencies.<br /><br />“They are trying to spread the dirt of corruption,” he told reporters.<br /><br />An agitating sanitation worker said if the salary money was not released by the Delhi government they would protest right outside Sisodia’s home in Patparganj. <br /><br />Garbage cleared<br />“Today we just held the protest near his colony,” said a sanitation workers’ union leader, adding that the garbage littered by them was later cleared by their colleagues.<br /><br />On Thursday, over 120 councillors of the three BJP-led corporations – North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC), and East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) – including senior party leaders marched to the Raj Niwas from Chandi Ram Akhara shouting slogans seeking the release of funds by the Delhi government for the civic agencies.<br /><br />Delhi Police, however, said that only 10 to 15 people were involved in the protest and had brought garbage in hand carts. <br /><br />“They were demonstrating at Laxmi Nagar and Nirman Vihar traffic signal. Due to this, traffic was heavy in the carriageway from Laxmi Nagar towards ITO. <br /><br />Motorists were told to avoid Vikas Marg and use National Highway-24,” said a police officer.<br /></p>
