{"id":352182,"date":"2025-02-03T03:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=352182"},"modified":"2025-02-03T03:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:20:11","slug":"congress-presents-united-strength-ahead-of-delhi-assembly-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-presents-united-strength-ahead-of-delhi-assembly-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress presents ‘united strength’ ahead of Delhi assembly polls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Presenting a united face ahead of Delhi assembly polls, Congress held a joint press briefing on the last day of campaigning where its leaders attacked AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and promised to reclaim the legacy of former party CM Sheila Dikshit.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The briefing was attended by senior leadership of the party including party chief Devendra Yadav, candidates Sandeep Dikshit, Haroon Yusuf and senior leader Udit Raj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delhi Congress chief Devendra Yadav on Monday said this election seems very crucial as the people of the city are supporting the party and fighting this assembly polls for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would like to thank residents of Delhi for supporting us in this crucial time ahead of elections. We have felt that though the party is on the backfoot, the people of the city are fighting for Congress. As a result we feel strong and supported by them,\u201d Yadav said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Addressing the media he said that there is a need to bring back the golden period of Delhi which we witnessed under the leadership of Sheila Dikshit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have always tried to take along the people who have been left behind in the society, during the Congress government in the city. Now that they say we have given free facilities, but nobody has given anything free, it was the responsibility of the government,\u201d he added.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, party leader Haroon Yusuf said that Congress has made people look at the ground reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the past 10 years, BJP or AAP used to come up with new slogans and chimes and people could not see the ground reality but now people are raising their voices against the civic and other issues in Delhi. Congress has brought common issues in front of people during the campaign in the past one month,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also criticized former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal for the corruption and chimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe makes so many promises that people get confused and he leverages the confusion to run his government and corruption. People now have realized that this man pretends to be honest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandeep Dikshit said that the present government has not replied to the questions we have been asking about Arvind Kejriwal\u2019s healthcare and education model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFew years back, I asked him a question,” Would you call yourself a world class education provider, what is the parameter for that? Till now they have not come back with the answer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cArvind Kejriwal could not deliver even average of the work we had done in 15 years of power in the healthcare and education sector. If we built 150 schools, you remain stuck on 11. They have spent thrice the money on the projects but the result was not upto the mark of what we had done,\u201d Dikshit added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 70-member Delhi Assembly is scheduled to go for polls on February 5 and the results will be announced on February 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Presenting a united face ahead of Delhi assembly polls, Congress held a joint press briefing on the last day of campaigning where its leaders attacked AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and promised to reclaim the legacy of former party CM Sheila Dikshit.\u00a0 The briefing was attended by senior leadership of the party including party chief Devendra […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":352183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[17549,16003,16060,18820,19142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352184,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352182\/revisions\/352184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/352183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}