Congress promises no waste dumping at Dadu Majra

Chandigarh, December 18

Former Congress MP Pawan Kumar Bansal today promised the party would get the dumping of garbage at Dadu Majra stopped within six months after coming to power.

“We will look into alternative ways. We will set up a new plant following the right process and disposal of garbage in a scientific way,” he said. The national Congress treasurer, along with Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala, MC poll coordinator Rajinder Rana and city president Subhash Chawla, was addressing a press conference outside the dumping ground at Dadu Majra.

“In the past six years, the BJP-led MC has turned the life of around two lakh people residing nearby the ground into a mess by dumping garbage there without proper management. Those were days during the Congress rule when children used to play cricket there, even international cricketers, including Yuvraj Singh and Dinesh Mongia, played there,” he said.

Surjewala alleged, “Conspiratorial discrimination, cruel slashing of development budget, criminal indifference and insurmountable taxes are the only legacies of the Modi government and the BJP-ruled Chandigarh Municipal Corporation.”

“India’s City Beautiful carved out on the vision and dreams of Pt Jawaharlal Nehru has been converted into a “Garbage Mountain City” by the Modi and BJP government,” he alleged.

“While the BJP has erected a 10-lakh tons garbage mountain in the past five years, not a penny has been spent on waste processing. This is a telltale of criminal negligence. The only bigger garbage mountain of the height of Taj Mahal (73 metre) is in Delhi under the Kejriwal government,” he said, taking a dig at AAP.

Dumping ground a Cong gift: BJP

The dumping ground is a gift of the Congress to the City Beautiful which dates back with their tenure, said former BJP president Sanjay Tandon. Reacting to the Congress’ press conference, Tandon said, “This is the biggest ever blunder in the history of the Chandigarh MC. They brought the Dadu Majra waste treatment plant, that too without doing any homework in their series of scams and scandals. In the present scenario, the Congress lacks any planning or roadmap to resolve this issue. They are still clueless about its solution.” — TNS