The Delhi Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) today lambasted Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for her blatant lies regarding Delhi having one of the cheapest electricity tariffs in the country and released a comparative data exposing her fake claims. Cautioning people against being taken for a ride by Dikshit’s lies, Delhi BJP President Shri Vijay Goel stated that Delhi government has always been working in connivance with the Distribution Companies (DISCOMS) and helping them fill their coffers with anti-people policies.

Reacting to Dikshit’s claim that Delhi has one of the cheapest power tariffs in comparison to other metros and states, Shri Goel said that nothing can be far from truth. A comparative analysis of tariffs of Maharashtra, AP, Haryana, Chattisgarh shows that the tariffs are quite less compared to Delhi. “It is deplorable that the Chief Minister is fabricating the truth. Nothing can be far from the truth Not only does various states and cities have less power tariffs than Delhi but they also give more opportunities  of lower slabs to its poors. While in Delhi the lowest available slab is 0-200 units, states like Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Chattisgarh gives their people option of cheaper electricity at lower slabs like 0-30, 0-100 etc.” said Shri Goel adding that more than 22 lakh families have been hit by the recent power tariff hike. In fact, the economically weaker sections should be given cheaper electricity under more slabs like 0-100 and 100-150 units. 

Regarding Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission's (DERC) recent statement suggesting audit of DISCOMS by CAG, Shri Goel said the BJP has been demanding the same for quite sometime and the DERC's statement endorse BJP's stand. However, it is unlikely that this audit will happen under the rule of Congress government.

Shri Goel pointed out that earlier attempts for CAG audit were scuttled by the Congress government in Delhi. He said, "Despite telling the High Court that Delhi Cabinet has decided to (of December 27, 2011) to approve audit of these companies by CAG, it has not even sent a formal request in this regard to the Lieutenant Governor till date. "

A case demanding the audit of these companies was filed in the court and when Court asked the Delhi government about this, it informed that Cabinet has given its approval. However, despite more than 18 months, this government did not get inform LG about it. It refused to begin the formal proceedings in this regards. That exposes the doublespeak of Congress government.

Giving vent to the anger, disappointment and frustration of the common people over yet another hike in power tariffs and the complete sell out of people’s interests to DISCOMS by the Delhi government, the Delhi BJP today launched a massive agitation all across the city with the Delhi BJP President Sh. Vijay Goel leading a protest Torch & Candle March from party’s nation office 11 Ashoka Road to Delhi CM’s residence.   

Despite holding a peaceful Torch & Candle march, the party cadres led by Sh. Vijay Goel were lathi charged and water cannons were used against them by the police personnel. As the BJP leaders and party cadres tried to proceed further and reach near CM’s residence, Sh. Goel and other party leaders with hundreds of party cadres were arrested and taken to Tughlaq Road Police Station.

Next on the party list is Power Minister Haroon Yusuf at whose residence the party will soon organise protest against raised power tariffs

With the latest hike in power tariff, over the last two years, there has been a 72% increase in power tariff in Delhi. And it is likely to continue to increase unabated. The BJP’s stand is that instead of increasing the power tariff, it can be reduced by 30%. The party has promised to do this when it comes to power in Delhi.

As Sh. Goel was leading the protest march over the unabated power tariff hike, similar demonstrations, protest marches, chakka jam etc were held across the city at 80 places where  thousands of BJP workers gathered.  Those who participated in it included among others-Sh. Tanweer Ahmed, Sh. Lal Bihari Tiwari, Gopal Narain Singh, Trivindra Rawat, Vijay Sonkar Shastri, JK Jain, Kiran Ghai, Suyapratap Sahi, Anil Jain, Ashok Pradhan, Anil Sinha, Nirmala Sitaraman and Rameshwar Chaurasia.

Addressing a huge gathering party cadres  on this issue, Sh. Goel said, “The Congress government and the DERC have become stooges of the  DISCOMS. The DERC and Delhi government are getting ready to dole out Rs 19,505 crore as outstanding regulatory assets(claims by the private DISCOMS which will be charged from the common people through hike in power tariff.)  This would  translate into a hike in power tariff of  more than 300%.  

The  Congress government has just postponed this hike till assembly polls  to contain  backlash from common people. But it has officially accepted this suggested 300% hike and this will be implemented immediately after assembly polls.

A 300% hike means that the lowest cost of the per unit power will not be less than Rs 12 to 13. This would be unbearable for most of the city residents but as power is a basic necessity in this city now, so this nexus of DERC,DISCOMS and Delhi govt. is blackmailing the common people by raising power tariffs randomly.

 
Sh. Goel said that the BJP strongly opposes the  way Delhi government has given a free run to the DISCOMS.  The outstanding balance on regulator assets that will be claimed from consumers by the DISCOOMS  through hike in power tariffs will be  based on the figures provided by DISCOMS. No cross verification has been done by the DERC. Why there is no independent verification of these figures which are clearly fudged to benefit the DISCOMS?

When DERC did not have data from DISCOMS from 2007-2012, how did it provisionally approve these regulatory assets through statutory advise?

Sh. Goel informed that the agitation will continue over the next two and a half weeks and will  culminate with a massive “Bijli Rally” on 11 August at Ramlila Grounds

The Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party today announced  the launch a city wide agitation against unabated increase in power tariffs  making power consumption increasing unaffordable for all sections of society, especially the poor and the middle class. The party will hold a massive rally on the issue at Ramlila Ground on 11 of August.  The party will hold candle light marches all over the city tomorrow including the one in front of Delhi CM’s residence and that will be followed by agitation at the local level by the party at District and Mandal levels.
 
Announcing the launch of the BJP agitation at a press conference, the Delhi BJP President Shri Vijay Goel said, “The common people of Delhi are bearing the brunt of a complete sell out of their interests by the Congress government of Delhi and DERC to the private DISCOMS.  It is shameful that the government instead of protecting the interests of common people working in hand in glove with the private DISCOMS. The Delhi BJP will not tolerate this. We are very clear about this that instead of increasing power tariff, there is an immediate scope of reducing the power tariff by atleast 30%.”
 
The recent 5% tariff hike has resulted in an increase of 72% in power tariff over the last two years which is unparalleled and completely unjustified.
 
“In fact the hike announced yesterday is just tip of the iceberg. The DERC and Delhi government are getting ready to dole out Rs 19,505 crore as outstanding regulatory assets (claims by the private DISCOMS which will be charged from the common people through hike in power tariff.)  This would translate into a hike in power tariff of more than 200%.  The Congress government has just postponed this hike till assembly polls to contain backlash from common people. But it has officially accepted this suggested 200% hike and this will be implemented immediately after assembly polls,” Shri Goel added.
 
Here are some of the key facts :-
 
From 2002-11, the DISCOMS claimed regulatory assets worth Rs 7232 crore. Out of this Rs 6919.04 were approved by the DERC and Delhi government. Out of this, last year Rs 928 crore were doled out to DISCOMS. This led to 15% tariff hike. 
From 2011-13, the DERC and Delhi government accepted claims of a bailout package for DISCOMS for Rs 12,586 crore. 
Through 8 % surcharge imposed on consumers to dispose off these regulatory assets for year 2012-13, Rs 1228 crore have been recovered by DISCOMS through this surcharge. 
That still leaves us with 18277 Crore outstanding claims of DISCOMS from 2002-13. 
If doling out Rs 927 crore resulted in 15% tariff hike,  that clearly implies that to dole out the rest of Rs 18277 crore there has to be more than 200% hike.2/-
 
 
 
 
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Shri Goel said, “This outstanding balance is based on the figures provided by DISCOMS. No cross verification has been done by the DERC. Why there is no independent verification of these figures which are clearly fudged to benefit the DISCOMS?”
 
“When DERC did not have data from DISCOMS from 2007-2012, how did it provisionally approve these regulatory assets through statutory advise,” asked Shri Goel.
 
“The Power Purchase agreements of the DISCOMS are not made public. It is on basis of these PPAS that the DISCOMS are claiming losses and the DERC and Delhi government introducing power tariff hikes. Why these agreements are not made public so that everyone can see what is the reality ?”
 
Shri Goel said, “There is complete lack of transparency and the Delhi government and the DERC have become stooges of the DISCOMS. The ultimate sufferer is the common man.”
 
The biggest evidence of this “Crony governance model” of Delhi government is the fact that while a 5% tariff hike has been announced even though the DISCOMS had asked for hike of 1.8% and the NDMC had sought a hike of o.83%.”
 
Blasting the Congress government over announcement of providing subsidies, Shri Goel said, “The public money is used for subsidizing and in the garb subsidy this amount is also going into the pockets of the DISCOMS robbing public exchequer of thousands of crores of rupees over the last few years.”
 
Commenting the recent power tariff hike, he said, “There are 25 lakh domestic meters in the city. Out of them 22 lakh consume more than 200 units and above. All of them will be severely affected with immediate effect.  Thus the promise of subsidy by Delhi government is a sham.”
 

Blasting the Congress leaders for taking the poor and vulnerable communities for a ride and humiliating them by defining the poor with an absurd criterion, the Delhi Bharatiya Janata party today said the Congress has not only humiliated the poor by setting up ridiculous norms for defining poor and then to add insult to their injury it has announced a Food Security Scheme which is non-implementable.
 
In fact, the rampant corruption and inefficiency has led to an increase in the number of poor in Delhi giving it another dubious distinction after being tagged as the “Rape capital” and the “Most polluted city” under Congress government’s rule.
 
Addressing a press conference, the Delhi BJP President Shri Vijay Goel said, “As per Delhi government’s own official statistics,   the number of people below poverty line have doubled in Delhi i.e. 11.49 lakhs in 1999-2000 to 23.3 lakhs by 2009-10 which reveals the truth behind façade.”
 
 As per the Delhi government’s official statistics provided for year 2009-10, Around 23.3 lakhs or 14.2 per cent of the population is below poverty line.  In 2004-5, BPL population in Delhi was 19.4 lakhs and in 1999-2000 it was just 11.49 lakhs or 8 percent. The figures show that the people BPL are on continuous rise and this is result of anti-people policies of Congress government.
 
The BJP announced that it will hold demonstrations at the residences of all those Congress leaders who are making offensive statements against the poor by saying that the poor can buy a meal at Rs 5 in Delhi.
 
“A quick analysis done by the BJP shows that the way Planning Commission headed by the Prime Minister himself has defined the poverty line is ridiculous and on top of it the Congress leaders have the cheek to say that in Delhi, one can get food at Rs 5.”
 
The Congress government in Delhi is running a Jan Aahar Scheme in which cheap cooked food is provided not for Rs. 5 or Rs 12 but for Rs. 15. And even this becomes possible only after a subsidy of Rs. 10 on every meal. Isn’t that an enough proof that figures quoted by Congress leaders to define the poor are ridiculous.
 
Exposing the classic case of Congress doublespeak, Shri Goel said, “In fact the Tendulkar methodology under which the poverty line has been defined at around Rs. 32 for the poor in the urban areas and around RS 27 in rural areas has been rejected by the Planning Commission experts itself.  Former RBI governor and the head of PM’s Economic Advisory Council Shri C. Rangarajan has already been entrusted with the task of reviewing this unrealistic and flawed criteria on the basis of which a fake reduction in poverty data is projected.
 
The new definition of poverty line which is more realistic was expected to come in 2014 but with assembly elections for four states including Delhi coming up, Congress was in such tearing hurry that it used the flawed Tendulkar methodology.”   
 
Shri Goel said, after ridiculing the poor, the Congress has now come up with another “political fraud”. “The Food Security Scheme proposed to start from 20 August is nothing but a political gimmick. Neither the UPA government at the Centre, nor the Congress government in Delhi is committed to implement this scheme. These announcements are made to befool people. This scheme will remain on paper like many other earlier schemes announced by the Congress government such as Dilli Annashree Yojana”
 
In fact, the Supreme Court had directed the Centre to distribute to the poor those food grains which were getting rotten in FCI godowns three years ago but the UPA government including the Prime Minister himself did not allow this to happen despite strong observations from the apex court.
 
And now prior to assembly and general elections, Congress is attempting this new political stunt through a food security scheme which has not been allocated required money. It has to be implemented through PDS which is in shambles. In fact, the PDS in Delhi has been termed as the second most corrupt by Transparency international. Justice Wadhwa Committee had a similar opinion as it found Delhi PDS overflowing with corruption and inefficiency.
 
 
Why  Food Security Scheme Cannot be implemented in Delhi ?
 
Centre hardly allocated any resources:
In December 2012, an expert group was set up at the instance of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) in UPA government to look into financial implications of the food security bill. . It came out with a report titled “National Food Security Bill: Challenges and Options’. The report clearly says that the financial cost of the Food Security Bill stands at Rs 6.82 lakh crore over the next three years– Rs 2.41 lakh crore in the first year; Rs 2.23 lakh crore in the second year and Rs 2.17 lakh crore in the third year. This is more than two and a half times the provision in the current fiscal year’s union budget. . Against this, the Budget provides just Rs 90,000 crore for food subsidy and Rs 2,250 crore for the National Food Security Mission. So actually there is no money to implement this scheme! 
 
The same report also points out that the proposed "Food Security Act" could be ineffective as there are huge leakages in the Public Distribution system. The research report exposes the shocking leakage under the present Targeted Public Distribution (TPD) system. It brings out that atleast 40 per cent of the foodgrains meant for poor does not reach them through PDS.
 
Now let us take a look at the  PDS in Delhi which is meant to implement this scheme but which infact is no position to do so-

• Agencies like Transparency International have termed Delhi PDS as the second most corrupt in the country. 
• Justice Wadhwa Committee found that there are huge gaps leading to rampant pilferage from Delhi PDS. 
• There are around 2.1 lakh ration cards for BPL families in the city which can cover 8-10 lakh population while their actual numbers according to Delhi govt’s own stats is more than 23 lakh. They will not get any benefit as in absence of ration card they have not been able to get Aadhar card also to which this scheme is linked. 
• A large number of APL families proposed to be covered under this scheme have neither ration card not Aadhar card. 
• More than 15.85 lakh APL (Above Poverty Line – Unstamped) card holders in the city do not get subsidized food items. 
• Majority of 11.53 lakh Stamped APL card holders have the same complaint ( An APL card holder is eligible for 25 kg wheat and 10 kg rice per month)·    
• Only 1.01 lakh Antodaya Ann Yojana (AAY) families were identified against the targeted number of 1.57 lakh AAY families, resulting in depriving 56,000 families of the benefits of the scheme. Funds available for beneficiaries remained unused as well. 
• Only 72 beneficiaries so far in Annapurna Yojana. 
• Less than 8000 beneficiaries in Dilli Annashree Yojana despite tall claims of more than one lakh beneficiaries by Congress government. 
• Out of 1100 posts in Food and Civil Supplies more than half are lying vacant. 
• PSUs like Delhi State Civil Supplies Corporation busy in selling liquor through its liquor shops rather than supplying affordable items to –Delhi residents. 
• There are only 2480 FPS in Delhi to serve more than 33 lakh ration card holders. 
• Major pilferages are reported to exist in the PDS in Delhi but no corrective action has been taken so it is very likey that the foodgrains meant for the poor will be squandered away. 
• There is no clarity about overlapping of existing schemes such as Dilli Annashree, Anyodya and Annapurna with the Food Security programme.

To  consolidate as well as expand the growing popularity of Delhi Bharatiya Janata party among Jhuggi Jhopri  residents  who are completely disillusioned with the Congress government  and are providing tremendous support to the BJP , the Delhi BJP President Sh. Vijay Goel will launch a mass contact programme among JJ dwellers through a padyatra at Lal Bagh  JJ cluster (in Model Town) on Friday.
 
The mass contact programme under which thousand of BJP cadres will span out in more than 680 JJ clusters across the city is a part of party’s “outreach” strategy which has already been successfully implemented by launching similar campaigns for youth, dalits and the minority.
 
The first phase of this mass contact programme will culminate with a massive rally of JJ cluster residents at Talkatora  Stadium on August 4.
 
Addressing a gathering of   heads of JJ clusters  on the eve of the launch of the mass contact programme for JJ clusters, Shri Goel said, “ The BJP has a positive agenda for the JJ clusters  which involve providing  every Jhuggi dwelling household with a house at the place where they are residing now,  single point electricity scheme to reduce their inflated and unaffordable  power bills, a corruption free PDS, highly subsidized LPG cylinders, providing regular water supply, sewerage health care facilities and  education facilities near their doorsteps.
 
It may be recalled that Congress has failed to deliver on all these fronts for JJ clusters. The Rajiv Ratna Awas Yojana is a case in point which was meant for the poor but has remained on paper! Dilli Annashree Yojana, Annapurna Yojana are some of the other schemes which were meant for poor but did not reach them in reality.
 
There are currently more than 2.2 million people living in JJ clusters across the city. The Planning Commission has itself said in a report that the JJ clusters in Delhi are devoid of basic amenities that should have been provided by the Delhi government.
 
Shri Goel said, “During the last 15 years, Congress government has done nothing for JJ clusters. Their living conditions have deteriorated. Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board which is supposed to improve their living conditions has become den of corruption.  To cover-up scam of crores of rupees in DUSIB, the Congress government did not allow a CBI enquiry to take place in 2010.  There should be a high level probe and action should be taken against those who have pocketed money meant to be spent on the poor.”
 
The heads of JJ clusters in Delhi assured Shri Goel that millions of JJ dwellers are fed with the false promises of Congress government and they would support the BJP to teach the incumbent government a hard hitting lesson in coming assembly polls.

The Delhi Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) today strongly condemned the twisted figures used by the Planning Commission of India to claim shrinking of poverty in the country and said that Rs.33 per capita per day criterion taken as a poverty line benchmark in the urban centres is laughable.

To mark their protest against the utter lies of the Planning Commission, Sh. Vijay Goel despatched Rs.33 money orders to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. He challenged that they should try and spend a single day on Rs 33 if that is what is the benchmark for poverty line.
Hundreds of BJP worklers followed Sh. Vijay Goel and sent money orders to the above mentioned as a mark of protest.

Dismissing the Planning Commission’s claim, Delhi BJP State President Shri Vijay Goel said that government has adopted not only flawed but unrealistic formula to calculate the daily survival needs of an individual. “It is yet another cruel joke by this insensitive government. I do not think that anyone in right frame of mind can agree to government’s calculation that Rs.33 per day is enough for an individual to live in a city like Delhi. Even if we do not go into the flawed yardsticks adopted by the this government’s foreign educated economists, a common man living in this city could have told them that this is not just enough,” said Shri Goel.

The fresh poverty estimates by Planning Commission are based on controversial Tendulkar methodology that has been under scanner for fixing poverty lines that were too low at Rs.22.42 per person in rural areas and Rs.28.65 in urban areas. The Tendulkar poverty line is wholly insufficient and glaring when one looks at the breakdown of the Rs 33 packet, which includes, for instance, just about one rupee per day for health expenditure.

Following that, the government set up another committee under the chairman of the Prime Minister’s economic advisory council, C. Rangarajan to look at a methodology for determining poverty lines and estimating poverty. Interestingly without waiting for the Rangarajan's report, the Plan panel went ahead with new poverty estimates giving rise to the motives behind the hurried declaration.

Shri Goel informed that the figures has manipulated by the Planning Commission by not including the figures of the National Sample Survey in  2009-10, as it was a drought year. “ Why did the government leave out this particular year when many lower middle income groups must have been pushed below poverty line due to severe drought conditions  which UPA government failed to handle?,” asked Shri Goel.

He further informed that about the calculation made by the BJP regarding the minimum requirements of a family of 5 living in a city like Delhi. Against the Planning Commission calculation of around Rs.1000 per capita per month, BJP believes that Rs. Rs.8697.75 is the minimum that is needed for a family to survive in the city with constant hike in rents, power, fuel & food items etc.

Shri Goel added that living becomes all the more difficult in this city for the poor since the Public Distribution System (PDS) of the Congress government is in tatters and hardly anyone is getting the allotted ration at subsidized rates. “The fact is that conditions of poor in the city are going from bad to worse since no relief is coming to them through PDS. Government has not only failed to provide food items to more than 15.85 lakh APL card holders in the city but also about 11.53 lakh Stamped APL card holders. Even BPL card holders are not getting regular supply,” said Shri Goel.

Amidst huge support from Dalit and backward communities in the Capital, the Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party President Sh. Vijay Goel today conducted a “Padyatra” in several predominantly Dalit colonies thus launching  the next leg of party’s  “Outreach” campaign  to bring more and more  Dalits in the party fold. In the earlier phase, the party had held a “sahbjoj” with more than 16000 Dalits which received tremendous response.

Sh. Goel started his “Padyatra” in Dalit abd Balmiki bastis, the first of its kind by any political leader in the Capital in the recent past, from Ranjit Nagar and visited a number of Dalit bastis in the surrounding areas. He was accompanied a a huge number of local community leaders and a number of BJP leaders including Sh. Krishan Lal Dhilod, president of the  Delhi BJP”s SC Morcha.

After the padyatra, in another unique initiative, Sh. Goel also decided to spend the night at Pandav Nagar along with a Dalit family.  Addressing the community members as well as the BJP cadres who accompanied Sh. Goel during his padyatra and night stay, the Delhi BJP President said, “The Dalits, Balmikis and Scheduled Castes have been left in the lurch as the policies of the Congress government in Delhi have benefitted only vested interests who have pocketed most of the money meant for welfare of Dalits.”

Sh. Goel said,  “ Rs 744 crore were diverted from Special Component Plan (SCP) meant for the welfare of Dalits, to projects directly or indirectly linked to Commonwealth Games by Delhi government and it ultimately reached pockets of corrupt Congress politicians and officials who indulged in unabated looting of public money  as brought out by investigations later on.”

The Chief Minister Sheila Dikshi, herself, has been strongly  indicted  for her dubious role in Commonwealth Games scam. This shows how this corrupt and inefficient government has taken Dalits and backwards for a ride.

The neglect of Dalits and backwards in Delhi duing the last 15 years of Congress’ misrule is evident from the fact that In Delhi the literacy rate of SC and Dalit population  is  at least 10-15 per cent below other communities. Among SCs and Dalits literates,  only  5.2 per cent are graduates and above. The SC/ST department  of Delhi government has utilised only Rs 130 crore out of Rs 325 crore in the 2012-13 financial year.

Sh. Goel said, “The Dalits have been treated as vote bank by Congress but as the facts reveal that their welfare has never been priority of Congress. “It is time to change this government which has taken the poor and the Dalits for the ride,” added Sh. Goel.

Elaborating on BJP’s vision for the Dalits , Balmikis and other backward communities Sh. Goel said, “After coming to power, the BJP will  run special time bound programmes to  support and encourage higher education, skill building and employment oriented training for the youth among Dalits, Balmikis and other backwards.

“The BJP has already prepared a roadmap for the economic empowerment of Dalit and other backward communities. The party will focus on special financial assistance schemes to promote entrepreneurship amongst Dalit youths.  The party will prepare “Special Component Plans” which would focus on the holistic growth of Dalits and other backward communities. And this will be done in a time bound manner,” informed Sh. Ghilod, President, Delhi BJP’s SC Morcha.

Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party President Sh. Vijay Goel today welcomed the appointment of Sh. Nitin Gadkari as in-charge of Delhi Assembly elections along with  Sh. Navjot Singh Siddhu.  Sh. Goel said, “I am confident that the experience and dynamism of these two leaders will help all the party cadres immensely.”

Inaugurating the first of the 280 “Karyakarta Sammelans”   being organized by the Delhi BJP, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj today called upon the BJP workers to ensure that the common people who are completely fed up with the Congress rule should reach the polling booths on the day of election and cast their vote. The call during these Karyakarta Sammelans is “Majboot Sangathan, Nai sarkar” (Strong organization, New government).
 
The BJP is organizing these Karyakarta Sammelans to mobilize its   crack teams at all 11763 polling booths in Delhi. Through these meetings, the party is training its 3.5 lakh  specificially identified cadres who have been organized in more than 11000 teams. Each team has 32 members and each team is manning one particular polling booth.
 
Smt. Swaraj said, “The general mood of people is totally against Congress. The Delhi residents are fed with 15 year misrule of Congress in the city and there is a change in the offing. The BJP workers need to ensure that this change is brought by effectively converting anger of people into votes.”
 
 “The key for BJP’s victory in the coming assembly polls in Delhi is in the hands of party cadres at the grassroot level. Effective polling booth management is going to make the real difference and the current exercise by the Delhi BJP of mobilizing the party cadres through these sammelans is the right step in the right direction at the right time,” she added.
 
Addressing the party cadres which gathered in huge numbers for this first Karyakarta Sammelan, which will go on till 4 August in all parts of the city, Delhi BJP President Sh. Vijay Goel said, “The Congress government in Delhi has proved to be a disaster on all fronts be it power,water, basic services, education, health, law and order, safety of women and welfare of the vulnerable sections of  the society.”
 
“Inflation and corruption are the two evil pillars on which this government is standing and it is time that the Delhi BJP ensures that this corrupt and inefficient government is done away with. To do that the party cadres will be visiting every household in the city and they would be equipped with the facts and figures  to  explain to every household in this city , how this  scam-ridden and ineffective government  has failed to deliver on any front,” he added.
 
After the BJP will come to power, the crack teams constituted at polling booth level will remain active and ensure the welfare for every household that has been assigned to them. This would be unique initiative in terms of connecting the common people with the government on day to day basis to resolve issues concerning them effectively and in a time bound manner.