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MCD elections to be held on time

Staff Reporter

No postponement, say Congress leaders

NEW DELHI: Elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi would be held on time and not postponed on any pretext. This decision was unanimously taken by Delhi's Congress leaders at a meeting held at the All-India Congress Committee headquarters here on Wednesday.

At the meeting, chaired by party general secretary in charge of Delhi, Ashok Gehlot, it was decided that the MCD polls be allowed to take place on time. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Pradesh Congress Committee president Ram Babu Sharma also expressed the same opinion.

The meeting began with Education Minister Arvinder Singh proposing that four wards be created in each Assembly segment of Delhi to serve people better. The Member of Parliament from East Delhi, Sandeep Dikshit, supported the demand and the Chief Minister also approved of the proposal saying there should be one ward for every 50,000 people to provide better governance.

Mr. Sharma then demanded that the elections be held on time and expressed his apprehension that they would get delayed if this proposal was taken up at this stage. He said efforts should be made to have the new Master Plan for Delhi-2021 finalised by January 15 to drastically reduce the recently announced conversion charges brought in for mixed land use areas and to regularised all the 1,500 unauthorised colonies.

The DPCC president said former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi also held the view that panchayat and corporations polls should never be postponed.

`Resolve differences'

At this, Mr. Gehlot said the Chief Minister and the PCC president should work together and resolve their differences. He also said that both of them would address the workers' meeting due to be held in the first week of January. Setting at rest all speculation, Mr. Gehlot declared that there would be no delay in the MCD polls.

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