![[File] AAP claimed that in the run up to the recent Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had poached two of its MLAs | PTI](https://img.theweek.in/content/dam/week/news/india/images/2019/7/12/aam-admi-party-pti12719.jpg "[File] AAP claimed that in the run up to the recent Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had poached two of its MLAs | PTI")
The BJP and the AAP will lock horns in a special Delhi assembly session today, over an alleged Rs 2,500 crore scam in the BJP-ruled municipal corporations. The emergency session was convened amid scam allegations by AAP leaders. The AAP has been targeting the municipal corporations alleging misappropriation of funds ahead of the civic body polls due in 2022.
The BJP members, who are outnumbered 8 to 62 in the house, said they will raise a "scam" in the Delhi Jal Board and corner the Kejriwal government on its "failures" in handling COVID-19 pandemic. The BJP also said will also raise the "poor" condition of water supply and public transport in the national capital.
Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta retaliated that the ruling AAP was trying to divert attention from the Rs 13,000 crore dues owed to the civic bodies by the city government. "We challenge Arvind Kejriwal to get CBI or any independent agency to investigate the allegations against the municipal corporations. If these allegations turn out to be false, the chief minister should step down from his post," he said. The Delhi BJP president said a proposed settlement of rent dues between two constitutional bodies, North and South DMCs, does not involve transaction of a single penny and hence, involves no scam.
The AAP leaders have claimed that all due funds were paid to the three corporations and claimed that corruption and inefficiency was responsible for the financial mess in the civic bodies.
