Give Chandigarh city in 'safe hands': Congress

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 21

While making an appeal to vote and support the Congress in the upcoming MC elections, Netta D’Souza, acting president of the All-India Mahila Congress, called upon women voters to give the city in ‘safe hands’ this time.

Addressing a press conference at Congress Bhawan, Sector 35, she said Chandigarh, which used to be known for its beautiful landscape and learned populace, was now leading the country in crime against women.

City Congress president Subhash Chawla said if his party won the elections, it would give 100 per cent relief in the water tariff and property tax charged from them during the entire duration of the lockdown imposed in the wake of Covid-19.

On the occasion, Congress leaders displayed costly vegetables and LPG cylinders to highlight the plight of women, whose kitchen budget has been hit.

BJP releases its

campaign report

City BJP president Arun Sood today reiterated that the city residents would retain the BJP-led MC in the elections scheduled for December 24.

Sood, along with former city BJP president and co-incharge of the party’s HP unit Sanjay Tandon and former MP Satya Pal Jain, was addressing a press conference while releasing the party’s campaign report.

The city BJP chief informed that a total of 12 star campaigners, through their 56 public rallies, canvassed for the party candidates. Besides, other leaders addressed 72 meetings in every nook and corner of the city.

AAP has a dig at BJP

In a scathing attack on the BJP, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said the double engine of the BJP government had failed and turned into a “trouble engine”. In a press conference here today, AAP city affairs in-charge Jarnail Singh alleged that in the name of development, the BJP launched a surgical strike on the people of Chandigarh by imposing various types of hefty taxes. He said the BJP chief should tell why the city slipped in the Swachh ranking?