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Pragatisheel Jan Morcha promises a 'better Delhi'

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Launches its MCD poll campaign with a rally

Leaders of the newly-formed five party alliance Pragatisheel Jan Morcha at a rally in Delhi on Sunday. Photo: R.V. Moorthy

NEW DELHI: The newly-formed five party alliance, Pragatisheel Jan Morcha, launched its election campaign for the forthcoming Municipal Corporation of Delhi polls in the Capital on Sunday with a rally at Ramlila Grounds where it promised providing a safe environment for women, standardised primary education for all, uninterrupted power and water supply and regularisation of unauthorised colonies among other things.

The rally was addressed by senior leaders of all the alliance partners and prominent speakers included former Prime Minister and Jan Morcha leader V.P. Singh, the Nationalist Congress Party president and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, Communist Party of India (Marxist) Central Committee member Subhashini Ali, C.P.I. general secretary A.B. Bardhan, Jan Morcha president and MP Raj Babbar and Janata Dal (S) leader and Deputy Speaker of Delhi Vidhan Sabha Shoaib Iqbal.

Declaring that Delhiites now have an opportunity to choose someone other than the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, Mr. Pawar said: "Though Delhi is the Capital of the country, the Government here does not take care of the poor. It is our duty to safe guard the rights of these people and we assure you that we will stand by them." Mr. Singh said it has become difficult for the common man to survive in the city. "This new party will bring a positive change. ."

Mr Bardhan allayed fears that the alliance may last only up to the MCD polls and declared that the like-minded parties would stay together and even fight the next elections to Delhi Assembly together.

Ms Ali spoke about how Congress and BJP had been taking turns in ruling Delhi but neither doing anything of substance to improve the livelihoods of the people.

The star attraction at the rally, however, was Mr. Babbar who managed to keep the audience glued to the proceedings.

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