Delhiites repose faith in AAP

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Delhiites repose faith in AAP

Wednesday, 12 February 2020 | Sapna Singh | NEW DELHI

Relentlessly pursuing the governance model for the common man, the Delhi Government led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has showed the way of 'unprecedented victory' for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) divisive politics.

In Delhi where the legislative Assembly enjoys power slightly more than municipal corporations, people have reposed their faith into AAP, the party which worked on the primary needs of people by delivering its promises on education and health. It has still a lot to do because the next five years will be more challenging for AAP with perennial issues like — air pollution, traffic jam, crime, unchecked migration amidst the complexities of multiple authority system in the Government of National Capital Territory Delhi  (GNCTD)

As the AAP has completed its first full tenure of five years and the struggle for the State-level party is not over as many challenges ahead to pursue Governance model for Arvind Kejriwal from Players' building popularly known as Delhi Secretariat.

Well aware about local issues, Delhi has kept 'nationalism' aside and soulfully participated in battle where consequences directly affect to their pocket showing unconditional support by giving 63 seats to AAP when opposition managed to get seven seats. The mandate is high as nearly two million people practiced their vote.

 Delhi, the heart of India from where all orders that are passed, affects State, national or international politics but as it has taken the shape of urban jungle falls under seismic zone IV with intermingling habitat and livelihood and unplanned rickety infrastructure in such scenario, the Delhi Government has to work with the Center for the betterment of it.

At time when Delhi Government's education model has been awarded at national level, it is equally important for the elected government to escalate the infrastructure with the possibilities of maximum registration of locals who voted for the government.

The multiplicity of authority, three power centers with intermingling responsibilities and denying statutory empowerment to Resident Welfare Association for the maximum participation of citizen in governance because variant lifestyles of inhabitants do not allow one show fits all as Delhi has a system — Urban / Rural villages, unathorised/ resettlement colonies , planned developed colonies, Lutyens Delhi and Cantonment.

Amid all these complexities, Municipal laws and delimitation of wards on the basis of population is big target to provide development and quality services both in city like Delhi, hence another challenge for the evolving AAP.

However, in this Assembly elections, structural reforms of governance model was a subject matter of Election discourse at state level despite the fact, only Center can reform the structure of Delhi's Governance through Parliament while Delhi assembly can empower bodies like RWAs  

Another important factor which play crucial role in the Development of Delhi is land and it is equally important to mention here that MPD -21 gas been amended 248 times by land owning authority - DDA, hence a question has raised what is the sanctity of a Master Plan which changes at the whims for a vote.

In such occurrence, skewing the balance of political power to areas with dense population versus planned developed colonies is another factor which has played vital role in assembly elections also while the challenge ahead is to formulate separate MCD's based demography not the geography.

Another decisive factor is land -law and order under center, MCD under Lieutenant Governor and Delhi government have played havoc in managing city state with a burgeoning population while the recent clear cut delineation of responsibilities accorded by Supreme Court gas solved the equation but structural safe guards need to be introduced for overall development of Delhi. 

Furthermore, strengthening RWAs for the last mile delivery of government services as the Courts, Police and various government departments turn to RWA's for help in maintenance of parks, parking ,  providing Colony Security, reporting Encroachments, controlling Dengue even however when it comes to pinning accountability of officials for certifying quality of work done or non availability of services, these RWAs ignored.

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