Developmental works and bringing accountability and transparency in municipal administration are among the promises made by the Congress for the April 15 municipal polls in the city. The party came out with separate manifestos for each of the three new municipalities,focusing on specific needs of the areas on sectors like health,education,sanitation and other basic infrastructure. The function brought together almost all the Delhi Congress leaders including Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit,Union Ministers Ajay Maken and Krishna Tirath,DPCC president J P Agarwal,senior AICC leaders Motilal Vohra,Janardhan Dwivedi and MPs Mahabal Mishra and Ramesh Sharma. Speaking at the function Dikshit said the basic objective of the party would be to ensure transparency and accountability in municipal administration if the Congress comes back to power in the municipal bodies. Our basic objective would be to make Delhi a clean city which the BJP ruled MCD had failed miserably in the past five years. The MCD failed to deliver as it was riddled with corruption and irregularities, Dikshit said. Claiming credit for significantly improving infrastructure of the city,Dikshit,however,said the BJP-ruled MCD failed miserably to ensure cleanliness across the city. The Congress government gave a new look to the city. But look at the MCD. It totally failed even to ensure basic cleanliness across the city, she said. Talking about alleged corruption in the MCD,Dikshit pointed towards several scams in the municipality including the ghost employee scam and accused the agency of not taking any action against the guilty. She also blamed corruption in the MCD for a number of building collapse in the city in the last couple of years saying unsafe constructions have been taking place across despite a spate of building collapses in which hundreds of innocent lives have been lost.
