Delhi Assembly polls next year, AAP and BJP go all out to woo rural voters

Both Mundka and Matiala constituencies are location to aged Delhi villages but besides person a important fig of unauthorised colonies and slums.

Last year, Lt-Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena had launched the Dilli Gramodaya Abhiyan with an purpose to heighten civic amenities successful the agrarian areas. Officials said that till date, 573 projects worthy Rs 523 crore person been sanctioned, with Rs 960 crore transferred to the Delhi Development Authority for the programme implementation. Piped Natural Gas has besides been made disposable successful the villages for the archetypal time.

Over the past decade, the AAP has built a enactment basal successful these areas. However, enactment sources said that this enactment has been slipping due to the fact that of the unpopularity of the section MLAs successful galore specified areas. Notably, successful its archetypal list, AAP replaced 3 sitting MLAs – successful Seelampur, Kirari and Matiala.

At the Mundka meeting, Kejriwal said the constituency has the highest fig of kacchi (unauthorised) colonies successful Delhi. “Mundka constituency has 73 unauthorised colonies wherever we person built roads and lanes. I’m not claiming that each the enactment has been completed, determination are inactive areas wherever enactment is ongoing. However, important advancement has been made,” helium said, adding, “If you springiness america different chance, we volition implicit the remaining enactment successful the adjacent term… Don’t worry. They enactment maine successful jailhouse for respective months, but present that I americium out, I volition guarantee that each pending enactment is completed swiftly”.

Announcing plans for the sports university, Kejriwal said, “Construction volition statesman soon. It volition instrumentality time, but it volition beryllium a monolithic university. People successful our villages and agrarian areas are peculiarly passionate astir sports, and this assemblage volition supply opportunities for our younker to radiance successful this field.”

At its gathering successful Matiala, the BJP, connected the different hand, said the radical of Delhi’s agrarian loop person been denied improvement opportunities for the past 10 years. “During 10 years, Delhi’s villages person suffered owed to mediocre roads, deficiency of nationalist transport, nary caller schools and deficiency of wellness services. People of agrarian loop precise good cognize that immoderate tiny attraction oregon improvement projects person started successful agrarian areas are happening utilizing a peculiar money of implicit Rs 523 crore provided by PM Narendra Modi,” Sachdeva said.

Pointing retired the proximity betwixt Matiala and Najafgarh, and Haryana, Gurjar said the residents cognize astir the galore societal payment schemes successful the villages of the neighbouring authorities adjacent arsenic radical successful Delhi villages are suffering owed to the deficiency of basal amenities.