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AAP Alleges BJP Coerced Delhi Municipal Workers to Fill Modi Rally, MCD Denies Order

Video footage accompanied by a purported deputy commissioner directive suggests staff were forced to board buses at 7 a.m. to fill seats at the Rohini rally

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Overview

  • AAP leaders released video footage in which speakers said workers were told they would be suspended or terminated by the Deputy Commissioner if they did not attend
  • Saurabh Bharadwaj presented a purported Deputy Commissioner order requiring MCD school teachers to report at 7 a.m. for bus transport to the Rohini rally
  • The AAP said the mobilization effort canceled staff holidays and extended to sanitation, malaria and licensing departments as well as street vendors
  • MCD Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh and other officials denied issuing any such directive and said employees attended voluntarily to hear the Prime Minister
  • With no independent verification or formal probe reported, the allegations remain contested pending administrative or legal scrutiny