Narang claimed that officials from the Kamla Market police station, including the SHO and an ACP, were sent to the protest site to pressure the workers into ending their strike.
LoP in MCD, Ankush Narang
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has accused the BJP-led Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) administration of using police intimidation to break the strike by civic employees, instead of addressing their grievances.
Ankush Narang, the AAP Leader of Opposition in the MCD, leveled these allegations on Tuesday after meeting with striking Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) employees. Narang claimed that officials from the Kamla Market police station, including the SHO and an ACP, were sent to the protest site to pressure the workers into ending their strike.
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“Police have threatened action if the employees don’t end strike — this is BJP’s old tactic to crush workers’ voices,” Narang stated. He further alleged that this was part of a broader pattern by the BJP to “silence those who speak truth — first by intimidation, then by using police, ED, and CBI for arrests.”
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The striking employees have three main demands: equal pay for equal work, medical facilities equivalent to other contractual workers, and compassionate grants for families in case of an employee’s death.
Narang dismissed a committee formed by the BJP government to look into the issues as “nothing but a rattle,” claiming a resolution could be found immediately if there was political will. He stated that fulfilling the pay parity demand would cost the MCD approximately Rs 60 crore annually and questioned why the BJP government could not allocate the funds.
The AAP leader also criticized Delhi Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh and CM Rekha Gupta for not meeting the protesting employees. “Today so many employees and families sit on the road, but the mayor does not have even ten minutes,” he said.
Narang assured the striking workers of his party’s full support, declaring, “The Aam Aadmi Party is raising the employees’ voice 100 percent in the House… No police, no mayor, no BJP leader can stop this movement.”
The strike by over 5,200 MTS employees reportedly began on September 29, disrupting civic services in the capital. There has been no immediate public response from the BJP or the MCD administration to the allegations made by the AAP.
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