Hand over govt to Cong, Maken tells CM

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 15

Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Ajay Maken said, “If Kejriwal cannot run the Delhi Government well, he should hand it over to us and we will show how to administer the Government in an efficient manner.”

He said that ever since Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal assumed power, he has been looking for alibis every day not to do any work by locking horns either with the Lt. Governor or with the representatives of the Central government or his own chief secretary on one issue or another.

Under the Delhi Congress’ “Stop Politics, Save Metro” campaign, the Save Metro Rath, accompanied by Maken and other senior leaders, today visited the Tilak Nagar, Subhash Nagar, Tagore Garden and Madipur Metro stations.

Delhi Congress’ “Meri Metro, Mein Hi Bachaon” campaign following the drama created by the Kejriwal government in Delhi and the BJP-led government at the Centre on the fare hike, has been receiving overwhelming support from the people as they enthusiastically gave their suggestions and put their signatures on the flex boards kept outside the stations, a spokesperson of the DPCC said.

The suggestions on the flex board clearly indicated the anguish of the riders as their opinions included “Kejriwal and BJP should stop fooling the people of Delhi”, “Both the Kejriwal Government and the BJP-led Central Government were party to the Metro fare hike, and now to fool the people, the AAP and the student-wing of the BJP, AVBP were protesting against the Metro fare hike”, “Kejriwal and Modi should stop harassing the common people of Delhi” etc, he said.

Metro undertakes drive to facilitate passengers

In a meeting convened by the Director (Operations) of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), Sharat Sharma, directed all officials of the Operations and Maintenance Wing of the Delhi Metro to intensify their travel by the Metro while moving to and fro for duty.

This special drive is aimed at ensuring that any minor issue or incidence which may affect pleasant travel experience for the millions of Metro passengers in this festive season is directly monitored and attended to by the officials in the least possible time besides ensuring highest level of cleanliness in its premises, spokesperson for the DMRC said.

The DMRC has taken number of passenger facility centric measures to provide a world-class travel experience to its commuters, which have significantly increased in the past five years.

The Delhi Metro is nearing completion of 15 years of operations and presently provides one of most safe, reliable and punctual service availed by around three million passengers at its 164 stations spread across 218 km network, said the spokesperson.