NEW DELHI: Following three rounds of meetings, the third front parties under the banner of Pragatisheel Jan Morcha will take up final discussions on seat sharing for the forthcoming Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections at a meeting to be held at the Communist Party of India office in Ajay Bhawan here this Thursday.

According to the convener of the Morcha and Delhi unit president of the Nationalist Congress Party, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, the meeting will take up discussions for finalising the candidates for the polls. "The Morcha would be contesting all the 272 wards and there is complete bonhomie among all the constituents. We would be working towards fielding those candidates who have a clean image and who would stand a good chance of winning their seats."

Mr. Bidhuri said the constituents of the Morcha -- CPI (M), CPI, NCP, Jan Morcha and Janata Dal Secular -- would be preparing their own lists of prospective candidates and then these would be tallied to arrive at the final consensus.

The meeting to be chaired by Mr. Bidhuri will also discuss the issues that the front will take up in the run-up to the polls. While the Morcha has already started conducting public meetings and rallies to make a strong claim for the MCD, in the coming days it would be focusing aggressively on issues such as the price rise and the harassment being faced by the people at the hands of the private power distribution companies.

Mr. Bidhuri said corruption in the MCD and failure of the Congress to protect the people from sealing and demolition would also figure prominently during the campaign.

"Temporary relief"

"We want people to know that they have only been provided temporary relief from sealing and demolition and that the exercise would resume after the elections."

The Morcha convener said the Congress had also been misleading people on the issue of regularisation of unauthorised colonies. "The Cabinet approval for regularisation of 1,500 unauthorised colonies has only come `in principle' as the decision has to be ratified by the courts which would decide it on its merits. But the Congress is telling people that these colonies have been regularised when actually that is not the case."

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