Delhi Congress President Devender Yadav slammed the ruling BJP for its failure to fulfil the promises it made during the Assembly elections, saying these (the promises) are “turning out to be hollow”.
Cornering the ruling dispensation on this score, he said, “BJP’s promises during the Delhi Assembly elections are turning out to be hollow one by one as the government is mum on giving free cooking gas cylinders to households before Holi.”
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The BJP government also did not honour its promise to deposit Rs 2,500 into the accounts of every woman voter by March 8 on the occasion of International Women’s Day other than making a mere announcement through Chief Minister Rekha Gupta that a committee would be constituted to work out the formalities for payment of honorarium to women, he pointed out.
Notably, on March 8, the Rekha Gupta-led BJP government in Delhi approved Rs 5,100 crore for the first phase of the Mahila Samridhi Yojana, aimed at providing Rs 2,500 per month to women in the national capital.
He said the BJP government was no different from the previous Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) regime, which too dangled many rosy promises to influence the voters before the elections only to deceive them.
“During the Assembly election campaigns, the BJP had targeted the AAP government on corruption and misappropriation of tax payers’ money in the construction of the ‘sheesh mahal’ and the liquor scam, and had promised to table all the 14 CAG reports in the very first Assembly session, but it only tabled two reports. Tabling of the remaining CAG reports is not on the agenda of the upcoming Budget session,” the Delhi Congress chief said.
