
CHANDIGARH, Nov 12: Five sarpanches of the UT villages, formerly owing their allegiance to Samajwadi Janata Party today joined the Congress in the City.
This was disclosed by president of the Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee CTCC Venod Sharma at a press conference organised here today. Addressing newspersons, he said that these sarpanches were Kuldip Singh from Kajheri, Hari Singh from Sarangpur, Mam Chand from Maloya, Pritam Singh from Kishangarh and Mahinder Singh from Khuda Jassu.
He said that Darshan Singh, member, Zila Parishad, from Behlana had joined the CTCC, too, apart from the panches of some villages.Sharma alleged that the UT Administration was not addressing the problems of the villages.
He resented that the lal dora had not been extended. He added that not much attention was being paid to providing better education in the villages.
The problems of many villages had worsened because of the rains earlier, especially Maloya and Kajheri. Sharma said that the party would launch an agitation against the power tariff hike after the elections. Also, CTCC would be constituted within a month, he said. Sharma highlighted that the number of members would be larger this time as the party wanted to give representation to all sections of society.