''Nonsensical' deep cleaning drive robbing BMC money for tanker lobby kickbacks'

Shiv Sena UBT leader Aaditya Thackeray on Thursday said the nonsensical deep cleaning drive of the Eknath Shinde government had cost the BMC Rs 790 crore reported news agency PTIThe drive was robbing taxpayers money and was meant to give kickbacks to the tanker lobby he further alleged in a post on XBJPsponsored Khoke Govt has siphoned off Rs 790 crores from mybmc coffers for an unconstitutional Chief Ministers mindless idea This taxpayer money will be wasted like thief while tanker lobby is paid and kickbacks taken by the khoke sarkar he said in the postOn February 27 Thackeray had targeted the Shinde government by sharing a video of a tanker deployed for road washing at Worli seaface which falls in his constituencyToday Mumbai faces a water cut And this is going on near Worli Sea Face courtesy the great nonsensical idea of deep cleaning by the most incapable cm of the khoke regime mybmc what is the cost per tanker for this nonsense What is he exactly doing Thackeray had written in the post on XHowever at the time Milind Deora who recently joined the Shindeled Shiv Sena from the Congress had defended the state government saying recycled nonpotable water was being used for deep cleaning driveHe also called Thackerays claim as a desperate political stuntDeep cleaning uses recycled nondrinking water and has nothing to do with Mumbais water cuts Connecting the two is nothing but a desperate political stunt Deora had written in his postThe deep cleaning drive delivers cleaner streets and clean air for Mumbaikars Deora had saidEarlier this week the BMC announced 15 per cent water cut in the city till March 5 after a power transformer caught fire and left some pumps non functional at Pise pumping station in Thane some 60 kilometres from MumbaiEarlier Aaditya Thackeray criticised the Maharashtra government for inaugurating the Mumbai coastal road project while stressing the projects inadequate status and claiming that the administration was seeking undue creditThackerays comments came on Monday echoing worries made by former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray who emphasised the governments disregard for numerous finished projects reported ANIFormer Maharashtra minister Thackeray said The work of Mumbai coastal road isnt completed yet but the government is inaugurating it just to get credit On the flip side there are so many projects that are completed but the illegal CM has no time to inaugurate them The way farmers front is there in Delhi similar fronts will rise here in Maharashtra The government should think about these issues instead they put labels like urban naxalsWith inputs from PTI and ANI