Union Home Minister Amit Shah today accused the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi of meting out a "stepmotherly treatment" to three civic bodies in the national capital, reports ndtv.com

Speaking in Rajya Sabha during a discussion on the Bill to merge the three municipal corporations, Mr Shah said there is nothing in government records on the objectives behind trifurcating the Municipal Corporation of Delhi in 2012.

"Ten years have passed, and the experience has been different. When the civic body was trifurcated, the objective must have been good: to give better services to residents. But this has not been the result," he said.

Listing the reasons behind this, he said, "The policies adopted by the three civic bodies are different. In the same city, there is no uniformity in policies. This is because when the civic bodies were trifurcated, their economic resources and responsibilities were not assessed properly."

Shah said two municipal corporations are in no state to sustain themselves financially, so they restructure taxes and tweak policies to continue operations.

He said there is "deep resentment" among employees of the civic bodies over the differences in working conditions.

"Delhi government's step-motherly treatment is not letting these three civic bodies function properly," he said, amid protests from AAP's member Sanjay Singh.