‘LAST-MINUTE WORK BY GOVT IN VIEW OF POLLS’

New Delhi: The Delhi Congress claimed the AAP government was using funds sanctioned by the Sheila Dikshit dispensation for carrying out “last-minute works” in the unauthorised colonies ahead of the civic elections. Addressing a press conference, Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken said that “step-motherly treatment” was being meted out to the residents of the colonies. Not a single unauthorised colony has been regularised by the AAP, he said. “Residents of the unauthorised colonies are being meted out step-motherly treatment. Forty per cent population of Delhi lives in slums and these colonies. The AAP had promised to regularise the colonies within a year, but not a single one has been done so far,” he said. Unauthorised colonies have also been the worst affected during the outbreak of dengue and chikungunya in the past few years, he said. Mr Maken, a former Union minister, said Mr Kejriwal’s heart was not in Delhi. He does not even attend office, Mr Maken said.