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"Congress failure" BJP's poll plank

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Describing the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections as a quarter final match between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress -- with the 2008 Assembly polls being the semi-finals and the 2009 Lok Sabha elections the final -- Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan on Monday declared that the Corporation elections would be fought by his party on the plank of Congress failure to perform in the MCD, the Delhi Government and at the Centre.

Addressing a press conference, Dr. Vardhan said other issues that would be raised by the BJP would include the steep all-round price rise, sealing and demolition of properties, inflated water and power bills, and the alleged betrayal of the Congress with the residents of unauthorised colonies and slum clusters.

Stating that power reforms had failed in Delhi, Dr. Vardhan accused the Delhi Government of surreptitiously privatising half of the water supply system and contemplating imposition of tax on ground water.

He said while women were not safe on Delhi's roads, traders and business had suffered as the Congress failed to protect them from sealing and demolitions.

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