Terming the BMC budget as ‘Contract and Contractor Driven’, the Aam Aadmi Party today slammed the Shiv Sena led BMC for it’s lack of focus on improving the standard of living of Mumbaikars. That the cash rich BMC is the fountainhead of all corruption in Maharashtra, is an open secret and is validated by the lived experience of 1.5 Crore Mumbaikars.
Despite the massive revenue shortfall, the budgetary estimate for the financial year 2022-23 has been pegged at ₹45,949 crore, which is 17.10% higher than that of the budget for FY 2020-21 (₹ 39,038.83 crore).
Where is this additional money going to come from? As stated by the municipal commissioner, we will be dipping into our reserves, while also taking additional loans, thus further burdening the exchequer, without demonstrated capacity to actually spend it!
“Huge budget outlays mean nothing, when only 48% of last fiscal year 2021-2022 budget was actually utilized. This has been happening year after year, for the past several years, where the BMC has been consistently unable to spend it’s budget outlay, despite making provisions for it.
It speaks volumes of the BMC’s ineptitude and poor capacity to execute projects that have already been budgeted for. We demand that like the Delhi Govt, the BMC must also present an Outcome budget to state what was achieved in the previous year, else this entire announcement is useless”, said Ruben Mascarenhas, Mumbai Working President of the Aam Aadmi Party.
“This budget has nothing for those living in slums, who make up the vast majority of Mumbai’s population. Mumbai has poor physical infrastructure like roads, footpaths, water and sewage lines, degrading natural infrastructure and crumbling social infratructure like education, healthcare and lack of public conveniences.
One would have thought that the recent covid pandemic and its aftermath,would have served as a wake up call to the civic adminstration, but this budget has proved otherwise and is nothing a string of ‘misplaced priorities’
BMC’s allocation to the education department is ₹3370 Crores, which is a mere 7.33% of our budgent and reeks of vast underallocation.Our Govt in Delhi spends 25% of 69000 crores – 16377 crores.
That’s why Delhi’s 17 lakh+ students are thriving, while BMC schools keep closing with less than 3 lakh students left!
BMC has to think beyond these band-aid efforts of fixing a failed system. Why can’t BMC simply replicate, Delhi’s succesful model of Universal Healthcare through Mohalla clinics within 1km, where diagnostic tests and medicines are free, for every Mumbaikar?”, said Preeti Sharma Menon, National Executive member and AAP Mumbai Prabhari.
For the 20th anniversary of international career,started as a child prodigy of Gioconda Vessichelli ,a big concert will take place on 22january 2022 in South America, Aired also in television.
The famous singer Gioconda will be protagonist of an exceptional show and the three tenors and pianist will join her in this concert.
The kermess will see as anchor the daughter of the legendary and one of the most famous composer Demetrio Ortiz , for which Gioconda has recently sung and released 2 songs : “Tus Lágrimas ” and “Mis noches sin ti” with the orchestra of Maestro Sergio Cuquejo .
Places over 200 stickers in North Mumbai to raise awareness about the Shiv Sena’s failure to improve standards of living over the past 30 years*
The Aam Aadmi Party today, bestowed gold medals on Mayor Kishori Pednekar, for her phenomenal work as Mumbai’s first citizen – overseeing the destruction of city’s civic infrastructure and making the citizens’ lives more miserable than ever before. As a part of the campaign called #GoldMedalForMayor, AAP Mumbai Ward Presidents placed stickers with the caption ‘Gold Medal for Mayor’ across the suburbs, at locations which demonstrate how successful our Mayor and the Shiv Sena have been – at being incompetent, unaccountable, and unwilling to address the civic issues that plague our city.
The AAP Mumbai campaign, which witnessed over 200 stickers being placed at various locations in North Mumbai, targeted civic issues which adversely affect the quality of our daily lives – countless potholes, excessive pipeline leakages, open manholes & drains, scattered garbage, broken footpaths, dilapidated vehicles on roads, and many more – representing the BMC’s abysmal failure to fulfill its responsibilities as Mumbai’s civic body. The objective of the campaign was to garner public attention to the inability, and as some might argue, the refusal of our Mayor & the Shiv Sena to make Mumbai cleaner, safer and more liveable for the Aam Aadmi.
“Despite being in power in the BMC for the past 30 years, the Shiv Sena has remained incapable of improving Mumbai’s public toilets, road networks, drainage infrastructure, & solid waste management systems; and turned a blind eye towards the provision of essential public services like healthcare and education. In spite of being the richest civic body in India – with an annual budget of over 39,000 Crores, the BMC has silently watched, while Mumbaikars have continued to struggle due to the ineptitude and callousness of our representatives.” said Gopal Jhaveri, AAP Mumbai leader.
“Corruption in the BMC is at an all-time high, and performance is at an all-time low. Kishori Pednekar deserves a gold medal for being the worst performing Mayor of Mumbai by far. It is our appeal that Mumbaikars choose their elected representatives, keeping in mind the incompetence and apathy that we have all been witness to, for the past 30 years.” said Preeti Sharma Menon, AAP National Executive Member & Mumbai Prabhari.
Hundreds of farmers in tractors started arriving at Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border as Friday marked one year of the ongoing farmers’ protest against the central laws.
Many of them brought along vegetables, sacks of flour and lentils, spices and cooking oil on their tractor-trollies, saying they have come prepared for a long haul.
Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), an influential farmers’ union from western Uttar Pradesh, has been leading the charge at the Ghazipur border since November last year.
The BKU is part of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a farmers’ collective, which is spearheading the protest for withdrawal of three contentious farm laws and for legal guarantee on minimum support price (MSP) of crops.
It has been a year of unmatched struggle mixed with happiness and sadness. We are fighting and winning. We will fight and win. MSP law is farmers’ right, BKU national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait tweeted in Hindi.
The outfit’s office-bearers claimed the police have been strengthening the barricading at Ghazipur border – both on the Delhi-Meerut elevated highway patch and at the UP Gate down below it — since Thursday, even as they said the crowd would swell at the protest site by evening Friday
We have a meeting of the SKM on Saturday and the future course of our action will be decided only after that.
We have planned a march towards Delhi on November 29, but SKM will take a call about it on Saturday, BKU spokesperson Saurabh Upadhyay said.
He said, Supporters in large numbers started reaching the border early Friday morning and by evening we are expecting over 50,000 people at Ghazipur alone.
A BKU supporter who reached Ghazipur in the morning from Muzaffarnagar on a tractor in a group said they have come to the protest with arrangements for food and accommodation.
It has been a year, the farmers can continue the protest for their rights for several years, the villager, draped in a shawl and a muffler, said.
Hundreds of farmers have been encamped at Delhi’s Ghazipur, Tikri and Singhu borders since November 26, 2020, with a demand that the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020 be rolled back and a new law made to guarantee MSP for crops.
PM Modi had last week announced his government’s decision to withdraw the contentious laws.
The Aam Aadmi Party today, held the Tiranga Yatra – a commemorative rally from Badi Masjid – Bandra West, to the August Kranti Maidan – Tardeo, to celebrate our Nation’s Constitution Day, and to honour the brave martyrs who lost their lives in the 26/11 Terror Attack. The procession was led by Mumbai Prabhari Preeti Sharma Menon and Pradesh Committee leaders Sumitra Shrivastav, Suresh Acharya & Ajay Singh; and witnessed the support of hundreds volunteers & citizens – who joined us in our tribute to the Indian Constitution and the 26/11 Martyrs.
26th November 2021 is the 7th Constitution Day celebration for India, and marks 72 years of the adoption of the principles upon which our Nation was conceived. It is imperative now more than ever before that we recognise the importance of upholding the values of our Constitution. Laws are being passed by overruling Parliamentary procedure, the role of our Institutions is being diminished, and local governments are being dismissed. As citizens continue seeing their rights being trampled upon, it is essential for us all to reflect upon & reaffirm our founding principles; and to express our gratitude to the Father of our Constitution – Dr. BR Ambedkar – a venerated man who stood for liberty, equity and justice.
By founding the AAP on 26th November 2012, the founding fathers of the the Aam Aadmi Party wedded each & every volunteer and leader of the AAP to the Constitution; and we pledge to uphold the Indian Constitution above all else. On the other hand, sadly for Mumbai, this day is a reminder of the horrific terror attack that the city and the country bore. The 26/11 attack led to the death of more than 150 citizens & security personnel, and the tragedy of losing the lives of loved ones can never be forgotten. “Today, as we commemorate the Constitution Day, and honour the sacrifice of those who were martyred during the 26/11 terror attacks – we must reflect upon the values that our founding principles uphold, and realise that it is in the spirit & fabric of this Country that we find the capacity to endure, to fight adversities and to overcome them together.” said Preeti Sharma Menon, National Executive Member and Mumbai Prabhari.
Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Friday met party chief Sonia Gandhi amid speculation over Cabinet reshuffle and organisation rejig in Rajasthan.
His meeting came a day after Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot met Gandhi here and the two leaders are learnt to have discussed the political situation as well as the impending cabinet reshuffle in the state.
Speaking with reporters after meeting Gandhi, Pilot said, “Whatever the Congress party wants me to do, I am more than happy to do. In the last 20 years, whatever job has been assigned, I have done it diligently and now also whatever the party decides, what role I have…I am happy to do it.”
“I am happy Mrs Gandhi took feedback from all of us. I think at the right time, AICC general secretary Mr (Ajay) Maken will take an appropriate decision viz-a-viz Rajasthan,” the former deputy chief minister said.
A major reshuffle is on the cards in Rajasthan in the next few days and various modalities are being worked out by adopting the “one man, one post” formula while considering appointments in the cabinet, according to sources.
Pilot for long has been demanding that Cabinet expansion should happen and appointments to boards and corporations in the state be made soon. He has been asserting that Congress workers and leaders working closely with him for the party should be given their dues.
Pilot and the MLAs supporting him had revolted against Gehlot last year over his style of functioning, after which Pilot was removed from the posts of the state party chief and the Rajasthan deputy chief minister.
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BJP president J P Nadda on Tuesday lauded the party’s performance in the city corporation polls in Karnataka and congratulated the state leadership, including Chief Minister B S Bommai, for a “bigger” win than the last time.
“Thanks to people-friendly policies of PM Narendra Modi, we have won Belagavi City Corporation for the 1st time. It’s a matter of pride that Karnataka BJP has emerged as single largest Party in Hubballi-Dharwad Corporation & performed exceedingly well in Kalaburgi Corporation,” Nadda said in a tweet.
He lauded Bommai, state party chief Nalin Kateel and party workers for ensuring that the “BJP won bigger than it did last time”.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in Karnataka received a shot in the arm in the elections to the three municipal corporations by getting clear majority in Belagavi, emerged as the single largest party in Hubballi-Dharwad and finished a close second in Kalaburagi.
In Doddaballapur City Municipal Council election in Bengaluru rural district, the BJP emerged as a single largest party while the Congress got absolute majority in Tarikere Town Municipal Council in Chikkamagaluru district.
The elections took place on September 3 and the results were announced on Monday.
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