Congress social media LS campaign to focus on ‘decade of neglect’ by BJP MPs

In addition to several visits to assess the state of civic amenities across the city, Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has recently launched the ‘Dilli Gramoday Abhiyan’, which seeks to qualitatively transform the state of the city’s countryside.

“Since the BJP is able to somehow counter anti-incumbency and the lack of performance of its MPs by changing them, we will target the entire party’s apathy and not just of individuals who got elected on its tickets. We will present the BJP MPs’ actual report card to the people,” said a senior Delhi Congress leader.

“The Model Village programme, for instance, was among the first and most significant announcements made by the BJP after it came to power at the Centre a decade ago. But, only around a dozen of the city’s 360 villages were included under it, and living conditions across the city’s rural belt remain hellish,” the leader added.

According to sources, Covid-19 would also figure prominently as part of its social media campaign and feature instances of “absenteeism” by MPs as successive waves of the pandemic claimed thousands of lives between 2020 and 2021.

On Monday, the All India Congress Committee Social Media Department reconstituted the Delhi state Social Media Department, which with a 114-member committee under the chairmanship of Mohd Hedayatullah, will seek to strengthen the Delhi Congress’s outreach for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

“The BJP has been spreading lies and falsehood about the party’s 10-year misrule at the Centre, and non-existent development works,” said Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely, adding: “We will tell people about the ground reality of stalled development works and inaction and incompetence of the seven BJP MPs in Delhi… It will also inform people about the five Nyay Guarantees of Shri Rahul Gandhi, which he has promised during his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.”