New Delhi, March 19 -- A day before the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) was to finalise its budget for 2025-26, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) moved eight "cut motions" or "amendment motions" that seek to modify allocations made for a specific purpose.
One of two key motions was a proposal to increase expenditure power of the leader of the Opposition, from Rs.4 lakh to Rs.7 lakh, and the other was to reduce the mayor's discretionary fund by Rs.500 crore, to its previous form of a Rs.10-crore fund, and use the reduction to regularise contractual workers.
In all, there were 31 motions moved by all parties.
Leader of Opposition from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Raja Iqbal Singh said the AAP was making arrangements to benefit them.
"AAP...