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Akanksha Kumar

Delhi library led by BJP leader didn’t have funds for branches, but issued salaries to her son

More than eight branches shut, an unrelenting protest by 75 employees over lack of salaries, a funds crunch, and at the centre of it all, one of Delhi’s oldest municipal libraries and a BJP leader mired in allegations of corruption and mismanagement.

With a sit-in outside the Hardayal Municipal Library in Chandni Chowk, the employees have been demanding the resignation of Poonam Parashar Jha – the library’s secretary who was previously a BJP councillor and the party’s Delhi Mahila Morcha president. 

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