New Delhi: Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Sheila Dikshit on Sunday clarified that the Congress party will contest the Lok Sabha elections on its own, and will sweep all the seven seats in Delhi.
Addressing workers’ conventions at Mehrauli and Badarpur, Ms Dikshit said,”Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was confusing the people by saying that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will have tie-up with the Congress in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Congress Party will contest the Lok Sabha elections on its own and there would be no tie up with AAP.”
”Delhi now want change as the people are tired of the hollow promises of Narendra Modi Government at the Centre and Mr Kejriwal’s Government in Delhi,” she said.
She said that in three months’ time the Lok Sabha elections will be held and the Congress party, under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, will form a Government at the Centre.
She appealed to the voters to elect the Congress candidates in the coming Lok Sabha elections in Delhi for a stable and development-oriented Government at the Centre.
She said that the manner in which the Congress party works, no other party can do for the progress and development of the country.
”Both the Modi and Kejriwal Governments make big promises, but they remain as just promises,” she said.
Ms Dikshit said Mr Kejriwal is now talking about getting full Statehood for Delhi to confuse the people, when he knows very well that only a few months remain for the term of the AAP Government in Delhi, and the new Government can bring a Bill in the House for the full Statehood for Delhi if it wants.
She said that if Mr Kejriwal was serious about full Statehood for Delhi, he should have taken up the issue four years ago, not when the term of his Government was going to end.
She said Mr Kejriwal was raking up the full Statehood issue with an eye on the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
”The Kejriwal Government in Delhi has failed on all fronts and was thriving by putting out five to six full page advertisements in newspapers with lies and falsehood, as it was squandering the hard-earned money of the tax payers for self publicity,” she said.
She said that the Kejriwal Government has done nothing for the development of Delhi, as whatever developments that took place in Delhi happened during the 15-year rule of her Congress Government in the Capital.
She said that had the money wasted on advertisements been used for the good of Delhi, many development works could have been carried out in the JJ clusters, resettlement and unauthorised colonies where the poor live.
She said that the Kejriwal Government, from the start, had run away from its responsibility and accountability towards the people.
”Mr Kejriwal and the AAP were creating confusion among the people and spreading lies,” she said.
”It would not be an exaggeration if the Kejriwal Government is described as a Government that survives on lies and falsehood. The truth was that the AAP and the BJP were hand-in-glove and were indulging in shadow boxing to fool the people of Delhi,” she said.
Ms Dikshit said that the people of the country very well know the history of the Congress party and its good work, and they now want the Congress back in power both at the Centre and in Delhi.
She said that when the Congress was in power for 15 years in Delhi, it carried out many development works and schemes for the larger good of the people, which resulted in the unprecedented development of the Capital.
Ms Dikshit said that the condition of Delhi has deteriorated to a deplorable level as the roads are broken, sanitation has become terrible with mounts of garbage piling up everywhere, pollution levels have crossed the dangerous mark many times, and all types of diseases have become a breeding ground in the Capital, but neither the Kejriwal Government nor the Modi Government are paying any attention to the plight of the people of Delhi.
She said that demonetisation and GST ruined the lives of the people in Delhi, and the sealing and demolition drives have severely affected traders and businessmen in the Capital, rendering lakhs of people jobless.
She said that though the AAP Government has been talking of hiking the minimum wages for workers, the policies of the BJP and AAP.
Governments have snatched away even the existing jobs from the people, instead of creating new job opportunities.
Ms Dikshit, a former three-time Chief Minister of Delhi, said that the people of Delhi are fed up with the hollow promises and falsehood by the Modi Government at the Centre and the Kejriwal Government in Delhi, now seek change both at the Centre and in Delhi.
She said that in the coming Lok Sabha elections, the Congress party is confident of emerging victorious in all the seven Parliamentary seats in Delhi.
She said that the Congress party fully understands the feelings of Delhiites, and appealed to the Congress workers to make door to door visits to gain the faith and confidence of the people, as only a Congress Government can ensure the development of Delhi and the welfare of the people.
Ms Dikshit appealed to the Congress workers that they should closely interact with the people and tell them about the big plans for their welfare thought out by Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
She said that the Congress workers should work earnestly to ensure the victory of all the seven Congress candidates from Delhi in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Besides the DPCC president, prominent others who attended the Congress workers’ conventions were working president Rajesh Lilothia, ex-MP Ramesh Kumar, Lok Sabha election campaign committee chairman Subhash Chopra, former Delhi Ministers Dr Yoganand Shastri and Ramakant Goswami, who is also the spokesperson, former Leader of the House in the MCD and spokesperson Jitender Kumar Kochar (Jitu), Jagpravesh Kumar, Om Prakash Bidhuri, district presidents Rajesh Chouhan and Vishnu Agarwal and thousands of Congress workers.
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