Congress to kickstart MCD election drive on March 25

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 22

Doing all it could to make a comeback in the national Capital, the Congress is going to bring its top guns, including P Chidambaram, Salman Khurshid, Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh, in the campaign for the municipal polls.

Addressing reporters here, DPCC chief Ajay Maken said the Congress will kickstart its civic elections campaign, titled 'Dilli Ki Baat, Dil Ke saath', on March 25 through a Facebook live session and corner meetings across the Capital with the party mulling to hold close to 200 small meetings across the city.

Senior party leaders, including Chidambaram, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ramesh, Tharoor and Khurshid, are being roped in to prepare a roadmap for helping the corporations combat the financial crunch, solid waste management and improve primary education and health, Maken said.

He said at each of the 200 planned meetings, senior leaders of the party will discuss different issues to make people aware of the achievements of the Congress government when it ruled Delhi for 15 years, and the party’s plans to give the MCDs a lasting turnaround.

If Congress is voted to power in the three corporations, Rs 2,000 crore would be earmarked for the development of unauthorised colonies, resettlement colonies and slum clusters of the national Capital, Maken said.