BJP alleges corruption in registration of construction workers in Delhi

The Bharatiya Janata Party accused corruption in the registration of construction workers in Delhi on Friday, claiming that nearly 2 lakh construction workers were fraudulently registered between 2018 and 2021.

During a press conference, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra claimed that 2 lakh of the 9 lakh construction workers registered with the Delhi Building and other Construction Workers Welfare Board in the last three years were fraudulent.

Patra said, “The AAP registries have been severely mischievous. There is an ongoing scam involving crores of rupees. The candidates are not real people, but rather proxies for the ghost registries.”

He claimed, “Almost 9 lakh people were registered as construction workers by AAP between 2018 and 2021, of which nearly 2 lakh were fake, according to an investigation. Here, 65,000 construction workers had only one mobile number, and this is how the fraud occurred.”

He stated that the number of “fake” registrations is preliminary and could rise further.

He said, “Over 4,000 had the same permanent addresses. This is only preliminary investigation which states that about 2 lakh such registrations are fake and the number can increase to much more”.

Patra added, “The board formed under Manish Sisodia has 3,000 crore rupees as the corpus fund for this year. This hefty amount will sadly be disbursed amongst the bogus entities immersed in the scam”.
Manoj Tiwari, a BJP MP, claimed that the AAP had previously stolen 143 crores from workers’ funds.

Tiwari alleged, “The person who can snatch the rights of labourers by making so many luscious promises, There is no need to tell how big an enemy of Delhi he is. Even before this, the Aam Aadmi Party had done a scam of 143 crores from the workers’ funds and used it in the work of the party”.

Tiwari accused Kejriwal of being on electoral visits.

He said, “The person who can leave his state suffocating in pollution comes for 2 hours just to hold a press conference, He is not worrying about Delhi, he is just on an election tour. He has no right to be the Chief Minister. he should resign from his post”.