Poor attendance at BJP’s kisan, OBC morchas

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 19

The Delhi BJP Kisan and OBC Morchas that held a panchayat at Rajghat failed to attract large number of gathering today.

The panchayat held to discuss problems of the farmers and other residents of the rural areas of the city in which representatives of about 80 villages of north, east, west and south Delhi participated.

Chaudhary Ram Karan, Pradhan of panchayat of 360 villages presented a censure motion against the Delhi Government for neglecting the rural areas. The censor motion was passed after brief discussion.

General secretary of the OBC Morcha Rajesh Bhatia said in reality only former BJP Chief Minister late Sahib Singh Verma framed schemes for the development of rural areas and after 1998 till date the ruling parties of Delhi had only added the numbers of unauthorised colonies in these areas.

The leaders participated in the panchayat expressed their anguish over the fact that the Kejriwal government or the erstwhile Congress governments had neglected the rural areas. There are neither good schools nor colleges and hospitals for the people. 

The public transport is insufficient and the expansion of Metro has not been taken up.