MCD Elections – Delhi Congress manifesto | what is there for We The People of Delhi
NEW DELHI, November 30, 2022—Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Ch. Anil Kumar, along with AICC In-charge of Delhi and ex-MP Shri Ajoy Kumar, AICC Social Media and Digital Platform Chairperson Smt. Supriya Shrinate, former DPCC president and Delhi Speaker Shri Subhash Chopra, Chairman of the DPCC Communications Department and ex-MLA Shri Anil Bhardwaj, ex-MLA and Coordination Committee Chairman Shri Devender Yadav and DPCC vice-president Shri Mudit Aggarwal, launched the Congress manifesto for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections at a Press Conference the DPCC office, Rajiv Bhawan here today, in which Congress has promised structural changes in the MCD to ensure transparent governance and rooting out corruption to shore up the MCD revenue, by ending the inspector raj and mafia control.
Ch. Anil Kumar said that 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, and the manifesto gives a complete vision of the party, with the thrust being on the welfare of the people, checking air and water pollution, arresting the spread of vector-borne diseases like dengue, malaria and chikungunya, bring financial prosperity in the common households and streamlining the education and health sectors. He said that if air and water pollution became severe in Delhi, it was due to the incompetence and inaction of the Arvind Kejriwal Government in Delhi in the past 8 years, and 15-year misrule in the MCD by the BJP.
Ch. Anil Kumar said that the Congress Government had left behind a clean and green city, with modern roads, housing complexes, hospitals and Government schools, but the deterioration of the city started in 2013 when the BJP and AAP together made the MCD the Most Corrupt Department, and polluted air and water, besides ruining public transport, He said that Congress pledges to make Delhi Shining yet again—“Meri Chamakti Dilli, Congress Wali Dilli”. Others present at the press conference were Chairman of the Legal and Human Rights Department Adv. Sunil Kumar, Shri Amitabh Dubey, Rajesh Garg and Shri Ashish Srivastava,.
Ch. Anil Kumar said that the salient features of the Congress manifesto are: Door to door collection of waste to free Delhi of waste dumps; widening the green area from 23% to 32%, i.e 5% increase in the next five years, schemes for Dalit upliftment, upgradation of MCD hospitals to Super Speciality Hospitals, medicines at half rate for which the “Sheila Dikshit Swasth Sahayata Yojan” will be opened, poor will be provided flats, social audit of the accounts of Municipal Councillors, and levelling of the three mountainous landfills at Ghazipur, Balswa and Okhla in 18 months, and to seek public opinion before issuing liquor licence,
Smt. Supriya Shrinate said that Delhi was a dream destination for crores of Indians as the Congress Government had made it a shining Delhi through development, improved infrastructure, clean and green Delhi, but 15 years of BJP rule in the MCD and 8-year misrule in Delhi by the Kejriwal Government ruined life. She said that even the poor have to buy bottled water for consumption which imposes Rs 1100 burden on them every month, as the water supplied by the DJB was unfit for consumption. She said that in the past 8 years, the Kejriwal Government looted Rs 22,000 crore from the poor in this account alone. She said that the Day Boarding Schools promised by the Congress will give protection to poor children from exploitation, ensure their proper education, and banish child labour. She said that when people were dying in thousands due to shortage of medicines, medical oxygen and hospital beds during the Covid-19 pandemic, Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia were finalizing plans to liberalise the destructive liquor policy.
Dr Ajoy Kumar said that over 54,000 people die in Delhi every year due to air pollution as the BJP and Kejriwal Government did not address the toxic air and water, as their focus was on other issues and in blame-games. He said that Kejriwal did not construct any new hospital while people were given dirty water which caused illness to them. He said that given a chance, Congress will change the way MCD functions to clean up not only corruption, but also the piled up garbage, and provide social justice to all.
Former DPCC president Shri Subhash Chopra said that both the BJP and Aam Aadmi Party were skirting issues affecting the people with the BJP accusing the AAP of air pollution, and Kejriwal blaming the BJP for garbage accumulation, He said that 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 was under his Government. He said that the Congress Government established 21 hospitals and created five universities, but Kejriwal could not open even a single school, though he had promised to open 500 schools in five years. He said that Kejriwal and Sisodia indulged in corruption in the renovation of class rooms, to loot the exchequer.
Shri Devender Yadav said that Kejriwal took redit for the works he had not done, instead he blamed others for his own lapses. He said that Kejriwal has not tabled the Audit Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General in the Assembly, which has pointed many serious lapses against the Kejriwal Government, as he wants to hide the corruption of his own and his Ministers and MLAs.
