Chandigarh MC elections: BJP releases report card, eyes victory in all 35 seats

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 9

While releasing his party’s report card based on main development works done in the past six years, local BJP president Arun Sood claimed to win all 35 seats in the Municipal Corporation elections.

Addressing a press conference, Sood, sitting alongside ex-MP Satyapal Jain and Mayor Ravi Kant Sharma, said the main issue of the party candidates during the poll would be development.

The main issue of party candidates during the poll will be development. Earlier, the BJP contested 22 of the 26 seats and won 20. Now, the number of wards has increased to 35. This time, the target is to win all 35 seats. —Arun Sood, President, BJP city unit

He said the BJP contested 22 out of the total 26 seats and won 20. “At present, the number of wards has increased to 35. This time the target is to win 35 seats,” he added.

Listing works during Covid, the BJP leaders said five lakh needy were given food, 11,652 dry ration packets were distributed and Rs2.27 crore was collected and given to the PM’s Relief Fund.

Besides, transport facility was given to 3,100 passengers during the lockdown, they added. During the second Covid wave, Chandigarh was the only city in the country where there was no shortage of oxygen, they said.

“The party is going to highlight not only its works done in the MC, but also of UT Administration and its allied departments,” they added.

Sood said security was given to women by covering entire city with hi-definition CCTV cameras, 11 smart schools opened, 380 new buses, including battery-operated, added, underpass connecting the Rose Garden to Sector 17 constructed, 6,500 LED street lights installed on cycle tracks and construction of Advanced Trauma Centre in Sarangpur were achievements of the party.

The city became number one in the education index of NITI Aayog and in solar power category, Sood added.

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