POLICY PARALYSIS WILL END, CLEAN UP GARBAGE

Listing his priorities for the months ahead newly elected Delhi mayor Raja Iqbal Singh on Friday said his immediate focus would be on improving sanitation ensuring desilting to minimise waterlogging and reviving policy and developmental work that has remained stalled for over 2 and a half years.

Singh also announced his intention to scrap the controversial garbage user charges introduced this financial year alongside property tax bills.

These charges were imposed by AAP during their tenure in MCD in consensus with officials We will withdraw them soon he said vowing instead to bolster waste collection and enhance sanitation People have suffered enough We will also work to restore greenery in parks that have deteriorated due to a lack of maintenance.

The 54 year old BJP leader from Mukherjee Nagar ward returns to the Mayor’s office after a gap of three years. He had earlier served as mayor of North Delhi Municipal Corporation in 2021-22 before the unification of the three corporations. Over the past 2.5 years Singh led the BJP as the leader of opposition in the MCD He now takes charge under markedly different circumstances amid financial stress policy paralysis and absence of key committees but with the support of a BJP led state government.