Urging voters to support the Congress in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) by-elections scheduled for November 30, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) president Devender Yadav, on Friday, said people should take into account issues such as rising pollution, crumbling roads, and poor transport.
Addressing a press conference, he alleged that 12 years of BJP and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) governance had turned Delhi “from heaven to hell,” undoing the development achieved during the 15-year Congress rule under former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
Yadav said voters should take into account issues such as rising pollution, crumbling roads, poor transport, deteriorating law and order, and ‘false promises’ related to monthly allowances for women and subsidised cooking gas.
A video shown at the event accused both rival parties of failing to maintain Delhi’s infrastructure and civic services.
Yadav also displayed what he claimed to be evidence of “vote theft,” alleging that the BJP had repeated the same voter’s photograph 91 times in the Ashok Vihar ward list.
Senior Congress leaders, including AICC Delhi in-charge Qazi Nizamuddin, Mahila Congress president Alka Lamba, and Rajendra Pal Gautam, also addressed the media.
Nizamuddin said employment and welfare systems built during the Congress rule had been damaged, leaving the poor more vulnerable.
Lamba raised concerns about women’s safety, citing rising incidents of crime and what she described as government inaction despite a “four-engine government” in the capital.
Gautam accused both the AAP and the BJP of working against the interests of Dalits and economically weaker students, claiming that changes in school admissions and rising college fees had restricted access to quality education.
The leaders collectively asserted that the upcoming byelections, though limited to 12 wards, offer Delhiites an opportunity to reject “corruption and misgovernance” and bring Congress back as an alternative.