BJP vision document is merely for Television not the people of Delhi

The Bharatiya Janta Party on Tuesday released a shoddy piece of literature called a Vision Document just three days before the election. This shows that they have no concrete plans for Delhi’s various sections and constituencies. They have not been successful at copying the AAP manifesto and have failed to keep up with their own promises of 2013.

Dr. Harshawardhan had promised Delhi full statehood for Delhi. However, Ms. Kiran Bedi and Narendra Modi ji have gone back on this promise and they don’t want to give the citizens of Delhi any power over their own lives.

Acting within the constitutional framework, the AAP government will use its moral and political authority to push for full statehood for Delhi. This will ensure that institutions such as the DDA, MCD and Delhi Police will be accountable to the elected government of Delhi. This way land will be made available for the common man, there will be greater synchronization and shared purpose among civic services with regard to service delivery and the law and order machinery will be accountable to the citizens.

The BJP has this time not talked about electricity as its priority and it has rolled back its promise of 30% reduction in electricity tariffs.
An Aam Aadmi Party government will keep its promise of reducing electricity bills by half. A more efficient, transparent and accountable system to regulate and audit the power generation and distribution companies is the need of the hour and AAP will do everything within its command to achieve that.

Discoms should purchase power from economical sources and wriggle out of expensive and unsustainable Power Purchase Agreements. The AAP will take measures to provide relief from rising power bills, namely generating cheaper electricity, improving transmission efficiency, fixing billing defects and correcting meter defects.

The BJP would have been better off if it had faithfully copied AAP’s manifesto, just like they have done so on the issue of women’s security. AAP promised adequate lighting, last mile connectivity, CCTV cameras, bus marshals, women’s security force, suraksha button, mobile applications for women’s security, two lakh toilets to ensure dignified sanitation and social security, and magically quite a few of our announcements made it to the BJP agenda. We are happy to know that we are informing the public discourse well.

Finally, it is clear that no thought or research has gone on into the BJP document. For example, the BJP vision document has no numbers or concrete facts that they can be held accountable to. AAP will make 20 new colleges, 500 new schools, create 8 lakh jobs, skill 17 lakh youth, create 900 new PHCs, 30,000 new beds and create a revenue positive citywide Wi-Fi. On the other hand, the BJP uses slippery short sentences to escape accountability.

There are many other shocking disclosures about the BJP’s idea for Delhi which are quite disturbing. It is distasteful that the party that does Mahapanchayats in Bawana, does unspeakable acts in Okhla and stimulates riots in Trilokpuri talks about weaving a better social and moral fabric and uplifting the downtrodden.

It is interesting to hear that Satish Upadhyay’s idea of tourism is medical tourism where private hospitals charge prohibitive amounts of money whilst not focussing on the terrible state of public health in Delhi.

This is but a few of the many criticisms and rollbacks of the BJP (tele)vision document. Many more will come along and a verdict will be passed on it when the people of Delhi give a clear and decisive vote for the Aam Aadmi Party’s vision, blueprint and plans for Delhi.