After very long interval, Rahul Gandhi got some favorable reports in the media for taking part in the dharna conducted by the Delhi Municipal employees demanding for release of their two-months pending salaries. He sat with them on the road outside East Delhi MCD office. Both North and East Delhi Municipal Corporations are unable to pay salaries of many employees as the cash flows have stopped because of the ugly fight taking place between the Centre and Kejriwal government.

But, Delhi Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung announced that Rs 493 crore would be released to the civic bodies on yesterday itself to cover the dues of sanitation workers. Obviously, the Congress party remits that credit into Rahul Gandhi’s account. Even the media also describes it as a victory for him over the Modi government. A section of media close to the Congress party has seen this as a sea of change in Rahul Gandhi’s functioning style and attitude as he never used to mind about such road side dharnas during his UPA regime.

Whether the credit goes to him or not, the dharna by the sanitation workers brings out a serious issue to the public notice. The Delhi government lead by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the Centre are conflicting on this issue also. The agitating workers told the media that both governments are not taking responsibility of paying their salaries since last two months. Both governments are avoiding paying their salaries for the last two months and blaming each other.

They said that the Delhi government has to pay their salaries in-time as they are serving it only. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had announced that his government will release pending salaries of sanitation workers, doctors and teachers of two municipal corporations for April and May. But, he fails to fulfill his promise, then only the sanitation workers have took this ultimate decision ten days ago. Obviously, Rahul Gandhi benefitted with the ongoing fight between the Centre and Delhi governments.