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BJP candidates file papers for Cantt. polls

Staff Reporter

“Potable water is the main problem here”
“Armed forces discriminated against in pay hikes”

NEW DELHI: All the eight Bharatiya Janata Party candidates filed their nomination papers in the presence of Delhi BJP president Dr. Harsh Vardhan and local MLA Karan Singh Tanwar for the Delhi Cantonment elections over the weekend.

The candidates who filed the nomination papers are Brijesh Tanwar (Ward 1); Pradeep Kadiyan (Ward 2); Sanjeev Nayar (Ward 3); Neelam Devi (Ward 4); Lal Chand Mehraoliya (Ward 5); Neena Sharma (Ward 6); Anupama Tripathi (Ward 7); and Deshraj Ahuja (Ward 8).

While addressing workers present on the occasion, Dr. Harsh Vardhan said the throat of democracy had been choked by the Congress for the past 10 years in the Cantonment Board. “The Congress is now ready for the elections due to the continuous agitation by the BJP. The Cantonment Board elections will be pre-semi-final,” he said, adding that the BJP would play semi-final against the Congress in the Assembly election and the finals would be the general elections next year.

Congress flayed

Dr. Vardhan said it was a matter of surprise that potable water was not available to the three lakh residents of the Cantonment Board even after 60 years after Independence. “Thousands of families of the three forces have to use water from hand-pumps and tube-wells. Load-shedding is common here. The Congress has done nothing to give relief to people of the Board.”

The senior BJP leader promised that the BJP will carry out all-round development of the area. Dr. Vardhan said the morale of forces had fallen due to the discrimination meted out in the Sixth Pay Commission report. He demanded an increase in salary of the forces.

Mr. Karan Singh Tanwar said that Congress had been putting off elections to the Board to save itself from defeat for the past 10 years. “The Congress had forcibly imposed their representatives on all the eight wards for the past three years, he charged.

Mr. Tanwar said 60,000 voters and three lakh citizens were living in pitiable conditions in the Cantonment Board in spite of the regime of the Congress in the Board, Delhi and the Centre. “Potable water is the main problem here. Immediate steps will be taken in the matter of basic amenities, price rise, education, health and security,” he added.

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