BJP clamours for development

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, January 17

A large number of BJP activists today held a demonstration near the Assembly on the first day of the Winter Session, demanding development in the national Capital.

Addressing the demonstrators, BJP president Manoj Tiwari said that the Arvind Kejriwal government has completed two years in office and in these years, development work has been hit. Services like sanitation, education, health, transport and roads have been adversely affected.

Tiwari said, “When I started the reality check of the services in jhuggi bastis, villages, I find that the people who had been promised free supply of water are thirsting for drops of water.”

He said that the government has failed to fulfil its 70 election promises, including security to women, free water supply, free Wi-Fi, mohalla clinics, new schools. Corruption is increasing in the departments of the government and those days are not far off when the people of Delhi will come on the streets in protest.

Leader of the Opposition Vijender Gupta said that in democracy, the Legislative Assembly is like a sacred constitutional temple, but the government’s anarchy has maligned its image.

South Delhi BJP MP, Ramesh Bidhuri said that the people of unauthorised colonies had voted for Kejriwal with great expectations, but today they are much disappointed. The Union Urban Development Ministry has given approval for the regularisation of unauthorised colonies in principle, but the Kejriwal government is taking neither any action nor is providing the necessary funds to the Municipal Corporations for starting the process of regularisation.

Tiwari said that the Election Commission of India has issued a notice to Kejriwal for instigating voters of Goa to accept money from other parties, but vote for the AAP.

He said that this notice was similar to the notice served to Kejriwal during the Delhi elections. During the Assembly elections in Delhi, he used the same language.

At a rally in Benaulim in Goa, Kejriwal said that voters should accept money from the BJP and the Congress, but cast their ballot for the AAP. This shows that the AAP and Kejriwal are habitual violators of law.

Tiwari has said that the Election Commission should relate Kejriwal’s Goa statement with the one he used during the Delhi campaign and take stern action against the AAP.