'Den of Loot': Union Minister Slams BJP's Own Civic Body in Faridabad
New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Cooperation and Faridabad MP Krishan Pal Gurjar publicly attacked his own party's municipal corporation in Faridabad on Tuesday (May 12), calling it a "den of loot" and admitting the rot was giving the Opposition easy material to work with.
He made the remarks while chairing a District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee meeting, where he tore into officials of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led (BJP-led) civic body over shoddy roads, ghost plantation drives, and alleged commission rackets.
Gurjar confronted the corporation's chief engineer, executive engineers, sub-divisional officers, and junior engineers alleging a systematic racket where public funds were being routed through contractors even as roads crumbled and basic infrastructure fell apart, The Tribune reported.
Congress MP Deepender Singh Hooda shared a clip of the proceedings on X, using it to take a dig at the ruling party.
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"Roads are breaking even before completing their lifespan. Inferior material is being used in interlocking tile work and sewer projects. The city has been turned into a den of loot," he said.
"You gorge on the money while the government gets a bad name," Gurjar told officials at the meeting.
He also called out the corporation's tree plantation billing, saying crores had been spent on paper with nothing planted in sight.
"Trees worth Rs 10 crore have been planted, but no one knows where those are. It is published in newspapers every day," he said.
Sitting beside him, Badhkal MLA Dhanesh Adlakha called the corporation a "hub for brokers" and drew a comparison between old and new construction. "We have also worked in the corporation for 20 years. The roads made 10 years ago are still not damaged, but the roads built over the past decade are broken every few years," he said.
Former Haryana minister and Ballabhgarh BJP MLA Mool Chand Sharma, BJP MLA from NIT Satish Phagna, and Congress Prithla MLA Raghubir Tewatia were also present at the meeting.
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