In a sharp political attack, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has accused the Delhi government of dumping massive amounts of waste from the Bhalswa landfill onto empty lands in rural Delhi. AAP Delhi chief Saurabh Bharadwaj claimed that under Chief Minister Rekha Gupta’s directives, thousands of trucks are transporting garbage from Bhalswa to villages in Delhi’s outskirts, turning these green areas into toxic zones.
Bharadwaj shared a video on social media showing trucks loaded with plastic, polythene, glass, and hazardous waste being offloaded in Karala village behind. ‘This is a deliberate plot to poison rural Delhi,’ he fumed, adding that the CM had promised to clear landfill mountains but is merely relocating the problem to unsuspecting villages.
The footage reveals AAP workers documenting the operation, warning that soon, towering garbage heaps will mar the rural landscape, inviting diseases through toxic leachate and air pollution. Over the past 15 years, MCD has allowed three massive landfills to grow unchecked, and now this ‘four-engine government’ is set to make Delhi the ‘cancer capital’ by shifting waste without resolution.
Villages like Mundka, Karala, Rani Khera, Rasoolpur, Bawana, Kanjhawala, Sultanpur, and Puth are directly in the line of fire. AAP demands immediate intervention from the CM to protect public health and the environment, vowing to fight this environmental injustice.
This controversy highlights the ongoing waste management crisis in Delhi, where promises of clean cities clash with ground realities, leaving rural communities to bear the brunt of urban filth.