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Rallies to expose BJP `double standards'

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI JAN. 3. Signalling the beginning of the battle for Delhi, the Delhi unit of the Congress will hold a massive public meeting at Mahavir Swami Park in Gandhinagar, East Delhi, this Sunday to expose the "double standards'' of the BJP and the Vajpayee Government.

The rally would also highlight the achievements of the Sheila Dikshit Government over the past four years and thank it for successfully executing the Metro Rail project.

Addressing a press conference here, the party MLA and District Congress Committee president, Arvinder Singh Lovely, said the rally, being conducted under the guidance of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee, would seek to put the issues in the right perspective and reveal to the people the evil designs of the BJP and its allies. Apart from thanking the Chief Minister for gifting the Metro project to the people of the Capital, the rally would also kick off a campaign against the BJP.

The DPCC is planning many such rallies across the Capital in the coming days to counter the false and misleading propaganda of the BJP and its leaders.

Mr. Lovely said the rally would also mark the launch of a campaign to highlight the achievements of the Sheila Dikshit Government during the past four years in various sectors, including transport, infrastructure, welfare of women, works in hundreds of unauthorised colonies, controlling pollution levels and making Delhi green and clean. Apart from Ms. Dikshit, the rally would be addressed by the AICC general secretary, Ambika Soni, Delhi Transport Minister, Ajay Maken, Health Minister, A.K. Walia and presided over by the DPCC president, Subhash Chopra. The two Rajya Sabha members, Karan Singh and A.R. Kidwai, along with senior leaders, Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar and J.P.Aggarwal would also take part in the meeting.

The MLA was critical of the manner in which the Delhi BJP president, Madan Lal Khurana, had been made the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Chairman and said this could hamper the progress of the project. The BJP has made this appointment against all norms and in blatant violation of rules that MPs should not be made heads of such prestigious corporations. Asked if this could mean that the Congress was launching its election campaign, Mr. Lovely said it could be termed more as an awareness campaign to apprise the people of the achievements of the Congress Government and at the same time expose the lies of the BJP that has sought to mislead the people.

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