MCD Elections 2022 Live Updates: AIMIM, Bhim Army in race; List of Congress and BJP candidates may come today

The 250-ward Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will go to polls on December 4 and the counting of votes will take place on December 7.

Meanwhile, after the list was announced on Friday, the BJP attacked the AAP over the inclusion of MLA Rajendra Pal Gautam as a star campaigner for the MCD polls. The saffron party accused the AAP of taking an “anti-Hindu” stand.

Gautam had resigned from the Arvind Kejriwal-led government last month following a controversy over his participation in a religious conversion program that allegedly insulted Hindu deities.

BJP MP Manoj Tiwari alleged, “Arvind Kejriwal has been exposed… He is anti-Hindu because Gautam, who abused Hindu gods and goddesses, has been made AAP’s star campaigner for MCD elections.”

Delhi BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga said Gautam’s nomination as a star campaigner exposed the “anti-Hindu face” of the chief minister and the AAP.

The rise of Gautam as AAP’s star campaigner proves that Kejriwal was behind the anti-Hindu agenda pushed by former minister, alleged BJP leader Kapil Mishra.

Meanwhile, the Delhi unit of the Congress on Friday termed AAP’s ’10 guarantees’ for the MCD polls as a “bunch of lies” and said the Kejriwal government was using every opportunity to earn money to “promote corruption” in the national capital. Gave.

Earlier in the day, AAP had announced 10 guarantees for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections on December 4, including cleaning up three landfill sites in the city, ending corruption in the civic body and giving time to employees. Includes payment of salary.

Congress state unit president Anil Choudhary claimed that the promises to clean up the land-laden mountains and end corruption were tantamount to a “pot turning a kettle black”.

“The AAP government in Delhi was equally responsible for the three landfill mountains and corruption. In the last eight years, the Kejriwal government only promoted corruption in the national capital and used every opportunity to make money,” he alleged.

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