AAP leaders, volunteers clean Delhi streets as MCD workers' strike enters day 5

Delhi PWD Minister Satyendra Jain on Sunday called a meeting of North and East MCD Commissioners to discuss the MCD workers' strike.

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New Delhi: Delhi PWD Minister Satyendra Jain on Sunday called a meeting of North and East MCD Commissioners to discuss the ongoing crisis of MCD workers' strike in the national capital.

The meeting, scheduled to take place at his residence in New Delhi at 9:30 am today, will discuss the municipal workers' strike that entered the fifty day on Sunday with garbage piling up in the city.

On Saturday, doctors from six hospitals and several dispensaries run by the north and the east municipal corporations on Saturday joined the municipal employees’ strike under a united front.

Hundreds of BJP workers have also joined the strike by sanitation workers of municipal corporations of Delhi. At least 1.5 lakh sanitation workers have gone on an indefinite strike from Friday over non-payment of salaries in Delhi.  

Meanwhile, Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra and several Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) volunteers on Sunday picked up brooms and took to the streets to clean up the garbage.  

MCD strike enters day 5: Delhi Minister Kapil Mishra & AAP volunteers clean streets of Delhi pic.twitter.com/YUrm63xZlK — ANI (@ANI_news) January 31, 2016