New Delhi, Jan 31 (Agencies): As the strike by sanitation workers of municipal corporations in Delhi enters its fifth day, ministers and lawmakers of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party are taking part in a clean-up drive in the city today.

The Arvind Kejriwal government has formed a task force as part of special arrangements to ensure garbage piling up across the capital because of the strike is cleaned up.

PWD Minister Satyendar Jain has directed his department to take up the job. Cabinet ministers and party lawmakers will join the cleanliness drive in their respective constituencies today.

Yesterday, garbage was dumped outside the residence of Delhi Assembly Speaker Ramniwas Goel. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has accused the BJP of "instigating" workers of the municipal corporations to throw garbage outside ministers' residences and offices.

As the war of words between the AAP and the BJP escalated, Delhi Tourism Minister Kapil Mishra told NDTV yesterday that the BJP-led MCD "is not capable of clearing the garbage and we will not allow heaps of garbage to pile up in Delhi...The BJP is trying to punish the people of Delhi."

The BJP hit back at the AAP government accusing it of playing "party politics" in not releasing money to the corporations.

In an open letter to the Chief Minister on Friday, Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyaya had asked Mr Kejriwal to release Rs. 3,000 crores to the three municipal corporations "as per recommendations of 3rd Delhi Finance Commission (DFC)."

Mr Mishra accused the BJP-led civic bodies of indulging in a 'salary scam' and not paying the sanitation workers despite Delhi government having released money for it. "(We) will make Delhi a clean city and people won't have to face the problem this time due to the strike by sanitation workers," he said. In October last year too, sanitation workers had gone on strike over non-payment of their salaries.