Congress should get ready for third surgical strike on 18the December: Sanjay Tandon

Congress manifesto is laughable, lacks vision: Sanjay Tandon

Chandigarh, December 16, 2016: Sanjay Tandon, Chandigarh BJP President, today said election manifesto released by the Chandigarh Congress should be ready for third surgical strike in city on 18th when the city goes for polls for a Congress-free Municipal Corporation, the first one being in PoK, and the second one on black money.

Addressing a press conference at BJP office, Kamlam in Sector 33 here, Tandon termed the Congress manifesto laughable and has exposed the Congress on what it could not do in the last 14 years and is a mockery with the people of Chandigarh.

Among other prominent BJP leaders who were present there included Aarti Mehra, senior party leader and former Incharge for Chandigarh, Raghbir Lal Arora, BJP Chandigarh Vice President, Amit Rana, President, Chandigarh unit of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), and Ravinder Pathania, Media Incharge of BJP Chandigarh.

Referring to a point made in the Congress manifesto promising housing for the UT employees, Tandon said, Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) had allotted the space but in 2008 and it was during the Congress regime that the proposal was scrapped and now with the initiatives of BJP it has been again revived.

Tandon said the manifesto promises to make city dust bin free and installing them where Sehaj Safai Kendras were not there, but can Congress explain in 14 years where these dust bins were installed and what was the budget.

On the other hand Modern dustbins were installed in city under Rs 1 crore garbage disposal scheme with Gas Authority of India Ltd. (GAIL).

The Congress should have talked about what they have done in the last 14 years and what they promise to do in the next 5 years.

The manifesto talks about upgrading the government schools, but I would like to ask them who got the schools upgraded?  It was BJP. Who initiated the move to make Chandigarh smart city?

It was BJP. Who made Chandigarh Kerosene free?
It was again BJP and What steps Congress took to bring water to city?, he said adding, it was because of the initiative taken by BJP that city will receive its full share of 2 crore 90 million gallons of water from two pipelines of Kajauli waterworks' phases V and VI?

Aarti Mehra, senior party leader and former Incharge for Chandigarh, while interacting with the media termed Congress manifesto as ‘Cut, Copy, Paste’ of BJP Vision Document, which she said only showed Congress has no vision for the city.

She added first Congress was doing ‘Cut, Copy, Paste’ with BJP releases and had done it with Vision Document now.

She said, he slogan given in the manifesto that the party is committed to the welfare of Chandigarh and will give a responsible and answerable administration. The last 14 years of their tenure is full of scams. Their former MP Pawan Kumar Bansal embarrassed Chandigarh with his involvement in railgate scam and the Congress President, Pardeep Chhabra was himself involved in 500 crore booth allotment scam and they are talking about commitment.

Mehra while commenting on the demonetization move of the Narendra Modi government said it was a welcome step to eradicate black money. She added things in Chandigarh were also getting better and during her campaign in the last few days she had not seen any queues outside banks.