Hindustan Times (Delhi)

Clean-up, graft fight in 10 ‘guarantees’ by AAP

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NEW DELHI: Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday promised to make Delhi garbage-free, clean and beautiful, and said corruption will be ended by taking building plan processes online and regularisi­ng minor property alteration­s through one-time penalties and other measures if the Aam Aadmi Party wins the Municipal Corporatio­n of Delhi (MCD) polls.

Kejriwal accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of failing to deliver on the promises it made during the 2017 municipal elections and of stalling his government’s projects. He outlined the AAP’S “10 guarantees” ahead of the polls, promising to fix parking problems and stray cattle issues, among others.

Kejriwal pledged to repair Mcd-run roads and revamp civic body-run schools, health care centres, and hospitals. He added that MCD parks will be beautified and all temporary workers will be regularise­d. Kejriwal promised timely payment of salaries, easy licensing, a conducive atmosphere for trade, and the creation of vending

Simplify building plans, check on corruption

Come up with permanent and practical solutions for parking crisis

Control on population of stray dogs, animals

MCD’S roads and gullies to be repaired, maintained zones. The BJP has controlled municipal corporatio­ns in the Capital over 15 years and the AAP is banking on the anti-incumbency factor.

BJP spokespers­on Sambit Patra attacked the AAP over its 10 poll promises, saying: “Those who have warrants issued

MCD parks to get facelift

All of MCD’S contract workers to be regularise­d

Licensing to be digitised; conversion, parking fees in commercial areas waived off; sealed shops

opened

Legal shape to hawking against them cannot give guarantees. They promised they would not join politics, not take government vehicles and accommodat­ion, stop corruption, but they did just the opposite.”

Delhi BJP’S Election Committee head Ashish Sood said that

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