{"id":1341,"date":"2018-10-09T05:33:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T05:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2018-10-09T05:33:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T05:33:54","slug":"centre-has-money-for-rich-but-not-for-sanitation-staff-arvind-kejriwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":"Centre has money for rich but not for sanitation staff: Arvind Kejriwal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, <\/strong>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal slammed the Central government for not releasing money for the striking sanitation workers of Delhi, saying it would have &#8220;immediately waived the loans of the rich&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is really sad. Today, they (the Centre) would have immediately waived the loans of rich, but they are not giving any money for the poor sanitation workers,&#8221; Kejriwal wrote in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>His reaction came after some media reports said that the Central government has refused to release money for Delhi&#8217;s sanitation workers.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Atishi and Dilip Pandey also flayed the Centre and Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Manoj Tiwari for &#8220;not being serious enough&#8221; to the cause of sanitation workers.<\/p>\n<p>They asked why the streets of national capital are filled with garbage despite the Delhi government releasing money for the municipal corporations (MCD) on time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people of East Delhi are suffering from litter due to the failures of the BJP-ruled municipal corporation. People can&#8217;t go out of their homes. There is a misunderstanding among the public that the money is not getting released because of the Delhi government,&#8221; Atishi told reporters here.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016-17, Atishi said, the AAP government had given the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) Rs 948 crore. &#8220;For this financial year, the Delhi government has already given EDMC Rs 772 crore,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The AAP government is paying a lot more to MCD as compared to previous governments&#8230; Where is the money going?&#8221; she asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal slammed the Central government for not releasing money for the striking sanitation workers of Delhi, saying it would have &#8220;immediately waived the loans of the rich&#8221;. &#8220;It is really sad. Today, they (the Centre) would have immediately waived the loans of rich, but they are not giving any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}