Upbeat on making a comeback politically in the city, the Delhi Congress said on Tuesday said that its performance in the MCD bypolls is a clear message that people want the party back.
Upbeat on making a comeback politically in the city, the Delhi Congress said on Tuesday said that its performance in the MCD bypolls is a clear message that people want the party back. The Delhi Congress said it “could provide a stable and efficient administration.”
Delhi Congress president Ajay Maken said people were fed up with the regular battles between chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and the BJP government at the Centre, at the cost of efficient governance. He added that the people of the city had reposed their faith in the Congress due to the proactive role played by party vice-president Rahul Gandhi. “Whether it was expressing his solidarity with the striking sanitation workers under unbearable 45 C heat, or rushing to the Shakurbasti JJ clusters in biting cold when the JJ clusters were being demolished and directing the Delhi leadership to file a PIL in the Delhi high court to get justice for the displaced people, or coming to the help of the rehri-patri people when they were being displaced, Rahul Gandhi was amongst the people of Delhi,” Mr Maken said, giving him credit for energising the party in the city. The Aam Aadmi Party, which bagged five seats in its debut civic polls, was jubilant over its tally.
Party workers congregated in large numbers at the counting centres to celebrate the party’s victory in five civic wards. AAP candidates Abhishek Bidhuri won the Tehkhand seat by 1,555 votes, Anil Malik won the Nanakpura seat by 552 votes and Mohammed Sadiq emerged victorious in Ballimaran by 2,066 votes. AAP candidates Ramesh won from the Matiala ward and Ashok Kumar from Vikas Nagar.
Delhi BJP, which came poor third in a triangular contest, said that the results of the civic byelections indicate that people of Delhi have distanced themselves from the politics of arrogance, anarchy and lies of the AAP.
“Due to the people distancing from the AAP, the party has lost in four wards vacated by its sitting MLAs. In the last Assembly election, the AAP had won in all of these 13 wards and its leaders were constantly claiming a 13-0 sweep, but the people of Delhi have restricted them to just five wards,” said Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay.
