The Delhi Congress on Monday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party government for “total administrative failure” in Delhi.
Leaders of the party were speaking at a meeting held under the leadership of Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Ajay Maken and attended by senior Delhi Congress leaders, including former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, here on Monday.
The meeting, which also saw the attendance of All India Congress Committee Delhi incharge P.C.Chacko, focussed on the issues of rising prices, unemployment, sealing and “failure of the Public Distribution System in Delhi”.
“There is total administrative failure in Delhi. People are suffering due to rising prices of essential commodities, unemployment, hanging sword of sealing on Delhi traders and the failure of the public distribution system. The people of Delhi have again started remembering the Congress rule in the city,” Mr. Maken said.
According to a statement, it was decided at the meeting that the party’s Executive Committee, which included several other leaders from the party's Delhi unit, would meet on the 15th of every month to discuss “burning issues related to Delhi” and programmes related to these issues.
Protests in 280 blocks
“The issues of rising prices, unemployment, sealing and failure of the Public Distribution System in Delhi were discussed in Monday’s meeting and it was decided that on March 4 the Delhi Congress will organise protests and padyatras which will see the burning of the effigies of both the BJP and the AAP in 280 blocks under the Delhi Congress,” the party said in a statement.
According to Mr. Maken, a meeting of senior Congress leaders, including former DPCC presidents, MPs and Delhi ministers among others, will be held on February 21 to discuss the preparation of the March 4 protest.
The party said that both the BJP government at the Centre, which had promised to give jobs to 2 crore people in a year, and the AAP government in the city, which had promised to give 10 lakh jobs a year, had, in their own ways, contributed to unemployment of those people who had jobs for many years by “closing down small shops” and businesses under the garb of sealing.
