LG should get corruption in MCD during 2022-23 probed by retired HC judge: Devender Yadav

Delhi Congress chief Devender Yadav on Thursday claimed that the audit conducted during the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) regime in 2022-23, after the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was reunited, has revealed a revenue loss of Rs 312 crore to the civic body due to alleged irregularities in tax collection.

Yadav has demanded that the Lieutenant Governor should get the alleged corruption in the MCD investigated by a retired judge of the High Court for the year 2022-2023 so that the whole truth could be brought out.

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He claimed that due to the alleged corruption, the MCD was pushed into a debt of Rs 14000 crore, adding that the audit report has shocking findings that the corporation lost crores of rupees due to non-collection of user charges and improper collection of revenue from advertising.

He said that the AAP, which was in power at the civic body, and the BJP, which ruled the corporation 15 years ago, are responsible for the losses.

Yadav alleged that APP leader and former CM Arvind Kejriwal had made lofty promises that if his party came to power in the MCD, it would banish contract employment and improve civic services; however, the same never happened, and the AAP allegedly exploited the corporation.

Yadav has also claimed that the audit report has also made a shocking revelation that Rs 155.1 crore was lost due to non-compliance of Solid Waste Management bylaws, Rs 9 crore was lost due to non-collection of a one-time parking fee and conversion fee for residential properties to commercial, Rs 142 crore was lost due to lapses in the Outdoor Advertising Policy, and Rs 40.42 crore was lost due to short collection from the transport company for advertisement on bus queue shelters.

The Congress leader pointed out that the MCD also suffered a loss of Rs 81.97 crore on advertisement charges under the revenue-sharing policy at IGI Airport.

He said that corruption during the AAP rule had been exposed in the audit report when irregularities in the work of almost all the departments in the Delhi government were found.