As leaders head back, issues plaguing Delhi to get attention
11 May 2014 9:45 PM GMT
For those who have been feeling that some of the most crucial issues plaguing the national capital have not received the required attention from the leaders, there is good news. Delhi leaders will soon start coming back to Delhi after spending months in various parts of the country scurrying for votes as the campaigning for the last phase f general elections came to an end on Saturday.
‘I will return to Delhi on 13 May after the polling,’ said Anand Kumar, senior Aam Aadmi Party leader who is camping in Varanasi adding that most of the outstation workers will leave by Sunday. Kumar is AAP’s Lok Sabha candidate from North East Delhi. Senior AAP leaders such as Ashish Khetan, Shazia Ilmi, Ashutosh, Manish Sisodia along with party several workers are in Varanasi but will return to Delhi ahead of the counting of votes to be held on 16 May.
‘I returned to Delhi today,’ said Delhi BJP chief Harsh Vardhan adding that the party’s prime ministerial candidate is winning and the only issue to be looked at is the margin of votes. The leaders and workers of BJP are also packing up from Varanasi as Election Commission rules mandate that the non-voters of the constituency move out before 24 hours of the start of polling.
Delhi is presently facing three major issues — water crisis, power outages and nursery admissions. Lieutenant governor Najeeb Jung has directed the power department to take action against distribution companies on non-scheduled power cuts but scheduled power cuts of up to six hours in a day are also ailing the consumers.
The city is also staring at a severe power crisis as the Supreme Court has allowed NTPC to cut power supply to BSES if they don’t pay the dues by 31 May. BSES has said that it doesn’t have the money to pay back.
The administration has no control on the menace of diversion of water tankers and water mafia. The DISCOMS have announced up to six hours of power cut in 80 areas on 12 May and 70 areas on 13 May.Â
The leaders and workers of all political parties had moved out of the city to boost the election campaign for their parties immediately after 10 April, when polling concluded in the capital city.
A group of BJP and AAP leaders headed towards Punjab while workers of Congress were assigned jobs in various parts of Uttar Pradesh which went to polls in several phases. The maximum strength of BJP workers was first moved to Amritsar from where senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley was contesting but after the polling concluded in Amritsar they were mobilised to Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh, particularly in Varansai from where BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendera Modi is contesting his Lok Sabha election.Â
Similarly, Aam Aadmi Party workers moved to mainly two constituencies — Amethi from where senior AAP leader Kumar Vishwas was pitched against Congress scion Rahul Gandhi and Varanasi from where former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is challenging Modi.
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