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"Congress has failed to fulfil poll promises"

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Crime and corruption have risen: BJP

NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan on Thursday accused the Congress of not fulfilling any of the five main promises it made to the people in its manifesto for the last Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections.

Dr. Vardhan has also posed five questions to the Congress to show that the party failed to live up to the expectations and aspirations of the people during its five-year rule in MCD.

The BJP leader said the Congress in its election manifesto in the year 2002 had promised that all the unauthorised colonies of Delhi shall be regularised and they shall be developed on the basis of 1976-77 policy without charging any fees.

But now, he said Union Minister of State for Urban Development Ajay Maken has announced in the Parliament that there is no time limit for the regularisation of these colonies.

He added that Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has said that the amount of penalty and development fees to be charged from 40 lakh residents of the unauthorised colonies would be decided after the MCD elections.

Therefore, he demanded to know if a fraud had been committed on the people in the name of regularisation.

Likewise, he wondered how Delhi, for which a status of international and hi-tech city had been promised could even be called so when crime and corruption have risen, 40 per cent of the population do not get drinking water and 30 per cent have no access to power.

Dr. Vardhan also charged the Congress of failing on its promises of ridding the MCD of corruption, failing to provide transparent and good local self government to the people of Delhi by dividing the MCD and not being able to provide full Statehood to Delhi.

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