Accusing both the Centre and Delhi Government for working together with sole aim to spread their political ambit, former president of the Delhi Congress Ajay Maken alleged that people are being subjected to virtual daylight robbery in the name of traffic challans and the Kejriwal Government has been keeping a blind eye to this harsh reality.
Questioning the ‘silence’ of AAP dispensation over ‘anti-people’ policies of the Centre, Maken said it proves that AAP Government is working in cahoots with the BJP Government. Both the parties have colluded to harass and torment the people of Delhi in every possible manner, he said.
Maken was speaking at a demonstration organised by the Kohat Block Congress Committee at the Tri Nagar Metro Station Chowk to protest against the transport policy of the Modi Government at the Centre. “The State Governments of Bengal, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa and Haryana are reviewing the transport policy of the BJP Government at the Centre by using the Supreme Court order to adapt to local conditions in these States to lessen the burden on the people but Kejriwal Government in Delhi was strangely keeping a stony silence about the new transport policy of the Modi Government,” he said.
He also said the economic condition of Delhi is deteriorating day by day as Karol Bagh is virtually shut, shops are empty with Diwali just a month away, traders have no business; production is low in industrial units and thousands of people have lost their jobs but instead of taking measures to revive it, Prime Minister was celebrating his birthday with pomp and show.
Maken further said that in the last five years of the Modi Government, the country witnessed rising unemployment rate, which has been the worst in the last 45 years. “The Central Government’s Labour Minister, instead of generating employment, has blamed the youth of North India, saying that they lack of merit. The Finance Minister found a strange logic in the falling sales of cars and scooters as she blamed it on the thinking of the youth in the 23-38 age groups as they were depending more and more on taxi services instead of owning their own vehicles. Both have no plans to address the pressing issues of rising unemployment and falling economic conditions, and in such a scenario,” he added.
Accusing the centre for playing with fire by investing Rs 11.30 lakh Crore of 29 crore LIC policy holders in the name of shoring up the fortunes of sinking public sector units which was a dangerous gamble with the money of the poor people, he said, adding that the Modi Government has no business to put the hard-earned money of the common people at risky ventures. The dharna was presided over by senior Congress leaders and AICC member Chattar Singh, Tri Nagar Block Congress Committee president Pawan Mehra besides others.
