Chandigarh Tribune
BJP members and local leaders protesting against the Congress government at Rose Garden roundabout in Chandigarh on Saturday.
CHANDIGARH, APRIL 22: The local unit of the Bhartiya Janata Party today came down heavily on the local Congress for failing to redress pressing problems regarding the electricity and water supply during their tenure in the Municipal Corporation which ends later this year.
Addressing a protest demonstration at the Matka Chowk, Mr Satya Pal Jain, a former Member of Parliament, said "the present Congress Government has been exposed within two years of its rule on account of non-performance at the Centre and Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, the Minister of State for Finance, has been exposed within two months for not providing electricity and water to the city as per the requirements".
Mr Jain said, "First the houses are demolished at the instance of the Congress Government and the officers of the Municipal Corporation and subsequently Congress leaders visit these places to show lip sympathy to the people whose houses have been demolished. The Congress is in power in the Centre, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Chandigarh Municipal Corporation. The party should either solve the problem or should resign. They should not mislead people". ...
