AAP govt failed to fulfil 2015 poll promises, says BJP

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government for not fulfilling the promises it made during the 2015 Assembly elections.

“Kejriwal-led government has accepted its total failure to implement its election promises as made in its 70 Point Action Plan. The failure covers the entire gamut of public services right from Jan Lok Pal to regularisation of unauthorised colonies,” the party said while referring to an RTI reply.

On Monday during a press conference, the party said that for around 4,200 buses plying in Delhi, CCTV cameras had been installed only in 100 buses.

While quoting the RTI reply, the party said: “No unauthorised colony has been regularized since January 2015. This was a major election promise to woo lakhs of residents of unauthorised colonies. However, the government failed to take any concrete action.”

The saffron BJP also claimed that the Delhi government has not moved even an inch with regard to the important promise made in the field of Higher Education. Locations of new colleges have not been decided and no funds earmarked for the purpose the party said.

“No new college has been set up since March 2015, in place of promises to Delhi people for the opening of 20 new colleges,” a BJP leader stated.

However, in terms of Higher Education Guarantee Scheme for students after Class XII, the RTI reply revealed that a budget allocation of Rs 10 crore each has been made during the last two years. Loans have been sanctioned in 57 cases, amounting to Rs 1.39 crore.

“The steps taken to control corruption can be seen on the internet. On filing appeal for the specific reply, few steps taken to make Delhi a corruption-free state were highlighted.

“It was also mentioned that no after-study has been conducted to assess the impact by the measures taken by the government to reduce corruption,” the BJP leader said.