"When Delhi elections are near..." BJP MP Praveen Khandelwal questions timing of AAP's road repair promises
Sep 30, 2024
New Delhi [India], September 30 : Questioning the timing of the commitment made by the Delhi Chief Minister to repair the roads in the national capital, Chandni Chowk BJP MP Praveen Khandelwal on Monday said that the party is making all these promises just ahead of the Assembly elections.
BJP MP Praveen Khandelwal claimed that the promises made by the AAp are politicaly motivated, "CM Atishi is now saying that she will get Delhi's roads repaired. In the last 10 years, Aam Aadmi Party did not do any development work... Now Atishi will get the roads repaired, her ministers will inspect the roads".
He further questioned AAP claiming that the party had been absent when there was shortage of water in the capital and when the capital had sewer problems.
"Now when the Delhi Assembly elections are very near, Atishi and her ministers are shedding crocodile tears and saying that they will get Delhi's roads repaired. Delhi is in a bad state, Aam Aadmi Party is silent and the people of Delhi are understanding everything. And when the time comes, a befitting reply will be given to this," Khandelwal said.
Raising concerns over the condition of roads, Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi had also written to the MCD commissioner, asking him to share the status of maintenance and construction of the MCD roads.
The Delhi mayor also inspected the condition of roads in Chandni Chowk, which comes under the North Delhi district, and said that now onwards a night shift will be there for the cleaning work in the Chandni Chowk area.
"Today, while on an inspection tour of Chandni Chowk with MCD officers, I instructed that apart from the morning and evening shifts, cleaning will now be done in the dedicated night shift as well. I have asked the Deputy Commissioner to present the proposal within a week," Delhi mayor wrote in a post on X.
Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, along with other MLAs and members of the Aam aadmi party, including former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Delhi Minister Gopal Rai inspected the condition of roads in the national capital last week.
Delhi Chief Minister had announced that various Aam Aadmi Party ministers have been assigned responsibility for different road areas in the city.
Atishi will oversee South and South East Delhi, Saurabh Bharadwaj is in charge of East Delhi, Gopal Rai handles North East Delhi, Imran Hussain manages Central and New Delhi, Kailash Gehlot is responsible for South West Delhi and Outer Delhi, while Mukesh Shehrawat oversees North West Delhi.
Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inspected several roads along with Atishi, and asserted to have a report prepared of all the roads under the PWD. The AAP supremo also handed over a letter to Atishi in the state assembly urging immediate repair for the damaged roads.
Speaking to the media, after inspection of the condition of roads in Okhla area, Delhi Chief Minister Atishi said, "For two days, Arvind Kejriwal and I inspected the roads of Delhi and found that the condition of roads is very bad... Arvind Kejriwal has given a call to all the party MLAs and ministers to work towards restoring the roads of Delhi at the earliest. Every inch of the 1400 km stretched PWD roads will be inspected. In the next three to four months, all roads will be restored. We will try to give pothole-free roads to the people of Delhi by Diwali. The opposition did everything it could to stop us from working. Now that Arvind Kejriwal is out from the jail and we will work under his guidance".
