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“Congress quick on promises, slow on delivery”

Staff Reporter

“100 schemes for the poor announced, few implemented”
“Congress has shown scant regard for the poor”

NEW DELHI: Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president Harsh Vardhan on Monday charged that almost all the schemes announced by the Sheila Dikshit Government for welfare of the poor had failed to take off as the Congress was more interested in scoring political points than really coming to the aid of the poor and the needy.

In a statement, Dr. Vardhan said while the Chief Minister recently said that her government had framed a scheme for providing full quota of ration to the very poor families and middle income group families, the announcement itself showed that the Delhi Government had not been providing ration in fixed quantity to these groups.

Likewise, Dr. Vardhan said, while over a hundred schemes for the poor had been announced in the last nine years by the Congress Government, only a few had been implemented. Most scheme like the one announcing that special cards would be issued to all the poor people of Delhi, all the jhuggi dwellers would be provided concrete houses, 4 lakh houses would be built for the poor, free education will be provided for the children of the poor and widows and destitute would be rehabilitated, have not been implemented.

The BJP leader said the Congress has shown scant regard for the poor and this was reflected in the fact that its schemes on providing food grains at cheap rates to them, checking atrocities against women and abolishing discrimination, and providing the poor with power under the single-point system at cheap rates had also proved to be non-starters.

Stating that not a single announcement had been fulfilled, Mr Vardhan said now in view of the Delhi Assembly elections due later this year Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit was trying to misleading the people of Delhi by making one or the other “hollow announcement” every day.

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