The Hindu : New Delhi News : BJP criticised for ‘negative tactics’

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BJP criticised for ‘negative tactics’

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Seeking to project the Bharatiya Janata Party in poor light over its performance in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi ahead of the State Assembly elections due in 2008, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president J. P. Agarwal on Saturday criticised the BJP’s “negative tactics” against the Capital’s rehri-patri traders.

Protecting livelihood

Mr. Agarwal, who met a delegation of various rehri-patri associations led by O. P. Wadhwa, said while the Congress had been making serious attempts to protect the livelihood of lakhs of rehri-patri traders, the ruling BJP had been acting against their interests. During the meeting, Mr. Wadhwa also submitted a nine-point charter of demands that sought drawing up of a plan of action to protect the livelihood of the rehri-patri traders by not enforcing the vending policy on them.

Responding to the demand, Mr. Agarwal said unlike the BJP, the Congress was not a party of the elite and would not remain a mute witness if any step was initiated to deprive the traders of their source of livelihood. He said right from the days of the country’s freedom struggle the Congress had worked hard for the uplift of the poor and the weaker sections of society.

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