AAP manifesto centralises on statehood for Delhi

Syed Ali Ahmed

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 25

The AAP manifests for the Lok Sabha elections 2019, released by party convenor and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, is centralised only on statehood for Delhi.

Kejriwal said Delhi had been deprived of their rights for the past 70 years. The ruling parties at the Centre, both the BJP and the Congress, deceived the citizens of the city though they had won all seven seats of Delhi and had the government at Centre.

Without statehood the state government has no executive power. Women are not safe here in the national Capital. It is known as rape capital. The police do not take care as it is in the control of the Centre.

If the Delhi is accorded full statehood, the police will be under the state government. It will be modernised. 

People can easily approach the Chief Minister and others.

He said at present Delhi students did not get admission even if they secured 90 per cent marks in Class XII. 

If Delhi gets statehood, 85 per cent seats in colleges will be reserved for Delhi students and in government jobs also, their seats will be reserved.

At present, the elected government of Delhi passes a law but it has no meaning because the final approval to law is given by the Centre. 

The government wanted to make contractual teachers as permanent, but cannot do.

Though Delhi is the national capital, but heaps of garbage can be seen on roads. The reason for this is that municipal body is under the Centre. The Delhi Development Authority is dense of corruption.

If Delhi gets statehood, in 10 years of time every citizen will get a house. Anti-corruption will be under the Delhi government, he said.