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" Only candidates with clean image will get Congress ticket"

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No differences among party leaders in the Capital, asserts Ashok Gehlot

MAKING A POINT: Congress general secretary Ashok Gehlot (left) and Union Minister of State for Urban Development Ajay Maken at the party workers' convention in New Delhi on Wednesday. — PHOTO: ANU PUSHKARNA

NEW DELHI: The All-India Congress Committee general secretary in charge of Delhi affairs, Ashok Gehlot, on Wednesday told party workers that prospective candidates who do not have a clean image and are directly or indirectly linked with criminal elements would not be given the party ticket for the upcoming municipal elections in the Capital.

Addressing workers at a convention organised by the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee at Rajiv Bhavan here, Mr. Gehlot said the Opposition parties were spreading false propaganda that there were differences between the party and the Government.

"The Congress is like a big family where there can be differences of opinion. But there are no differences among the party workers or the party leaders and members of the Government," asserted Mr. Gehlot.

Mr. Gehlot also told the workers that the voters in the Capital were intelligent enough to realise that only the Congress and the Government headed by it had tried to bring relief to the common people and traders in the city.

"The Central Government and the State Government made efforts to bring relief by way of issuing various notifications and also through the proposed Master Plan for Delhi-2021. Had the National Democratic Alliance Government brought in the Master Plan for Delhi during its tenure the citizens would have been spared of the sufferings that they had to undergo due to sealing and demolition," said Mr. Gehlot.

Union Minister of State for Urban Development Ajay Maken told the party workers that the results of the hard work put into the proposed new Master Plan-2021 would soon be felt by the people of Delhi. He also assured that all the suggestions made by the DPCC, MPs and MLAs would be given due care by including them in the Master Plan.

The Minister further assured the workers and the party leaders that people living in slums would not be uprooted and that there was a provision in the Master Plan to rehabilitate them in multi-storey buildings of 25 sq. m. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said there were no differences within the Delhi Congress and any reports of a rift was false propaganda being generated by the Opposition parties.

The leaders also expressed their faith in the leadership of DPCC president Ram Babu Sharma and hoped that he would lead the Congress to a thumping victory in the elections.

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