Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) municipal councillors on Thursday placed their suggestions during the discussion on the revised budget for the current financial year 2025–26 and the estimated budget for 2026–27 at a special meeting of the MCD House. During the discussion, AAP councillors strongly opposed the anti-people budget of the BJP-ruled MCD.
Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the MCD Ankush Narang said, “The BJP’s budget is merely on paper and cosmetic in nature, and that it has no concrete plan for sanitation, health, education, salaries and pensions, or basic civic amenities.” He emphasised that the AAP opposes this anti-people budget and demands an honest budget that provides real relief to the people of Delhi. AAP, he said, will continue to raise the voice of the people from the House to the streets.
Speaking on Thursday, MCD LoP Ankush Narang, said, “Councillors were scheduled to discuss the budget and openly criticised it. Even BJP councillors opposed the budget, as there were several essential heads under which provisions should have been made, but no allocations were provided.”
“For this reason, BJP’s own councillors opposed the budget,” Ankush Narang said, adding that AAP councillors opposed it openly and unequivocally.
Ankush Narang further said, “While BJP councillors may still be trying to save their jobs, the Aam Aadmi Party is in the opposition and is playing a constructive role.” He said the budget is miles away from Delhi’s priorities. “It is neither for the cleanliness of the city, nor for door-to-door garbage collection, nor for compelling contractors to carry out work, nor for appointing new gardeners in parks. The budget makes no mention of constructing new roads, filling potholes, or building new drains,” he highlighted.
The LoP in MCD further said the budget is also far removed from addressing the massive problem of stray dogs and stray cattle in Delhi. “The budget neither takes into account the priorities of the people of Delhi nor gives importance to sanitation workers and employees of other departments,” he added.
He concluded by stating that the BJP government should be ashamed for presenting such a budget, which has nothing to do with the people of Delhi or with the MCD.
