PRESS RELEASE ENGLISH 23.NOV.2013

                                                                                                         

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“If 73 lakh people in Delhi still need food security, who has cornered the fruits of economic progress?”

Professor Jagdish Mukhi. the sitting MLA and BJP candidate from Janakpuri constituency made a hard hitting attack on the economic policies of the Congress government in Delhi.

Addressing an election rally in Ward 119- covering D2-D3 

and A and B blocks in his constituency, Dr. Mukhi said that the Congress governments at the Center and in Delhi had made a total mess of the economic situation. The exchange rate of Rupee for the US $ has slided down to Rs.  63   for a Dollar. The growth rate statistics did not reveal the bitter truth that the poor have become poorer and only the rich have grown richer.  

Professor Mukhi, accompanied by MCD Councilor

Anil Sabharwal, Mandal Pradhan Yudhveer and over a hundred BJP workers and members of the Mahila Morcha was on a door to door campaign.

He said, “Delhi has the highest per capita income among the states but that was the situation even twenty years ago. It is unfair to work out this average clubbing the income of just 5-10 % very rich people and the 90-95 % very poor people in the capital city. The fruits of economic progress have not reached the poor as even according to government statistics, around

 73 lakh people continue to live below the poverty line and need food security.

  

During his address, Professor Mukhi, who has been a Finance Minister himself, revealed that the Congress government in Delhi had been spending up to 55 % of budget allocations on Non-plan heads. This figure was 35-40 % during the BJP regime. State earnings were at that time largely spent on projects that directly benefited the people of Delhi.

“Congress government has been making hollow claims. Its main concern has been continuing in power. Now the time has come when the voters in Delhi will expose the real face of the Congress through their votes on December 4, 2013. “

Narendra Chawla

Media Incharge