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BJP plans to corner Sheila during winter session

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NEW DELHI: Criticising the Delhi Government for calling a three-day winter session of the Delhi Assembly - making it the shortest in the past 14 years - Leader of the Opposition Jagdish Mukhi on Friday said the Bharatiya Janata Party has formulated a strategy to put the ruling Congress in a tight spot on issues during the session.

Prof. Mukhi said he had convened a meeting of the BJP MLAs on Thursday where the legislators accused the Government of trying to suppress the voice of the Capital’s citizens by calling a short session. They said at least ten sittings were needed to air the grievances of the people satisfactorily.

The BJP leader said while the Delhi Government had in the past nine years made lots of promises and announcements, it had failed to deliver on them.

He said the Delhi Government had failed to get the unauthorised colonies regularised people were living the absence of basic amenities. While the Congress had promised to give Delhi full Statehood, it had done nothing in this regard despite governing both Delhi and the Centre, he said. Prof. Mukhi also raised the issue of the Blueline and DTC buses, saying that the citizens had been left to fend for themselves and nothing had been done in this regard. Taking up the issue of power, Prof. Mukhi said the Chief Minister’s statement that the earlier electro-mechanical meters were slow and that the electronic meters were correct showed that the Government wanted to give undue favours to the private distribution companies.

Prof. Mukhi said the BJP would also raise the issue of 50 per cent of the population still not receiving potable water.

He said it would also pin the Government down on the issue of liberalising the liquor policy in the name of upcoming Commonwealth Games hosted by Delhi in 2010.

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