The Union Cabinet on Tuesday confirmed the merger of Delhi’s three Civic bodies – East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC), North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), and South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC)- into one municipal corporation.

The bill is likely to be tabled in Parliament next week.

Earlier, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal called the postponement of the announcement of the dates for the MCD elections a threat to the country’s democracy. It was the first time that the Centre had written to a State Election Commission to postpone polls, Delhi CM said.

In a press conference, Kejriwal had said that the BJP has been at the Centre for 7-8 years now. If they had to combine the three bodies, why didn’t they do it in all these years? Why to write to the EC just one hour before the scheduled announcement of the dates for the MCD polls, he asked.

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On March 9, the Delhi state election commission (SEC), which was expected to finalize the schedule for MCD polls, put a hold on the MCD polls announcement at the last minute, citing a communication from the Central government about plans to merge the three municipal corporations.

Nine years ago, the Delhi Municipal Corporation was working as one unit but the Congress has divided it into three parts for better governance. At present all three corporations are controlled by BJP.

There has been no significant improvement in Delhi Municipal Corporation since its division of it. However, the situation is even worse today as the Corporations got caught in the financial crisis. It has now become so difficult for the corporation to pay salaries to their employees. Due to which the corporation employees had to go on strike many times.

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Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for delaying Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections in the capital. Sisodia in a press conference slammed the BJP government and asked them not to cry like Congress and said that there will be a big achievement for BJP if they even win 10 seats. If you have the courage then don’t run away, fight (contest MCD elections) with us, Sisodia added.

Sisodia came down heavily on BJP after Union Minister Smriti Irani accused AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal of depriving the MCD employees of Rs 13,000 crores. Kejriwal had earlier in the day conducted a press conference in which he expressed outrage over the postponement of municipal corporation elections in the national capital, claiming that doing so weakens the democratic system.

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Kejriwal in a statement said that the date for MCD polls was to be announced at 5 p.m. on March 9, but the same day an hour ago, Centre wrote to State EC to combine all 3 civic bodies into one, and to delay polls. EC agreed to do so. The State Election Commissioner must reveal if he was threatened (by Centre) with ED, I-T, CBI raids, or has been given a post-retirement role after April. he added.

Responding to Kejriwal’s statement, Irani said Kejriwal has deprived the people of Delhi of the strongest unit of Democracy, of its funds, adding, they (AAP) are requested to allow development work to be done till the slums of the poor, let the reform work be done.

The MCD election dates are yet to be issued by the Centre, according to the State Election Commissioner, who is investigating certain legal objections presented by the central government. The Centre intends to restructure the MCD by combining Delhi’s three municipal corporations.

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