The Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee, on Wednesday, promised to fulfill what they have assured to the voters of Delhi, if voted to power in the MCD polls slated for December 4.
The party’s poll manifesto, released on Wednesday at the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) office, promises to deal with the air and water pollution issues apart from cleaning the accumulated garbage in the nook and corner of the capital city.
DPCC president Chaudhary Anil Kumar, All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Delhi Dr. Ajoy Kumar, former DPCC president Subhash Chopra, Chairman of the DPCC communications department Anil Bhardwaj were prominent among those who attended the meeting.
The party further promised structural changes in the MCD to ensure transparent governance and rooting out corruption to hike revenue generation doing away with the inspector raj and mafia control.
Chaudhary said the Delhi Congress had brought out four vision documents in the past one week to give a peep into what Congress would do when it comes to power in the MCD.
The manifesto, he said, gave a complete vision of the party, with thrust on the welfare of the people, checking air and water pollution, arresting the spread of vector-borne diseases like dengue, malaria and chikungunya apart from financial prosperity in the common households and streamlining the education and healthcare for all.
He blamed it all on the incompetence of the Arvind Kejriwal Government in Delhi during the past 8 years and 15 years’ utter misgovernance in the MCD by the BJP.
Chaudhary said that the erstwhile Congress Government had left Delhi in a clean and green environment, with modern roads, housing complexes, hospitals and government schools and that all these started deteriorating from 2013 when the BJP came to power in MCD and AAP formed the government in Delhi.
The DPCC president said the salient features of the party manifesto were door to door collection of waste, widening the green area from the existing 23 per cent to 32 per cent, schemes to uplift Dalit, upgradation of MCD hospitals to super specialty hospitals, medicines at half the rates. It also promised flats for the poor people, social audit of the accounts of municipal councilors, leveling of the three mountainous landfills at Ghazipur, Balswa and Okhla in 18 months apart from public opinion before issuing liquor license.
Former DPCC president Subhash Chopra said Kejriwal was equally responsible for the garbage accumulation as it was surprising that he did not take any action against the Delhi Pollution Control Board, which is under his Government.
According to him, the erstwhile Congress Government set up 21 hospitals and created 5 universities, but the present AAP government could not open even a single school, though he had promised to open 500 schools in 5 years.
CM Kejriwal and his deputy Sisodia indulged in corruption in the task of renovating class rooms and thus looted the exchequer.