AAP not inexperienced anymore: Party leader Gopal Rai

Aam Aadmi Party's Delhi convener Gopal Rai on Sunday said that unlike the Municipal Corporation of Delhi polls of 2017, the Aam Aadmi Party is not inexperienced on the civic front anymore. Rai was addressing a press conference in the capital city.

"The situation of both Assembly and MCD elections is different now. In 2017, AAP was inexperienced and that is why it could not perform very well. Even the masses wanted to give another chance to the BJP then, but the situation is entirely different now," he said. He further criticised the BJP-led MCD's inability to act on dengue control measures.

"It is MCD's responsibility to keep the city clean, fog and spray chemicals to kill larve so as to avoid breeding of dengue mosquitoes, but BJP failed on all these fronts," he said.

"Based on our mohalla sabhas (meetings), we have reviewed the work done in every Assembly segment and currently are working on a report to come up with even bigger campaigns after Diwali. People of Delhi want change in the corporation and we will deliver on that," he added.

Both the AAP and the BJP are taking digs at one another over cleanliness and rising dengue cases in the city ahead of the MCD polls. Both parties claim that they will ensure a neat, clean and healthy city if voted to power. Thus far, 240 dengue cases have been recorded across the city. The first death in the capital due to dengue was reported last week.

Meanwhile, the civic body has informed that all precautions are being taken to curb the spread of the disease. They have been conducting surveys and fogging areas which are reporting dengue cases.