'Pragatisheel Jan Morcha' to fight MCD polls on Cong misgovernance

New Delhi, Mar 2 (UNI) The 'Pragatisheel Jan Morcha,' formed by seven political parties in Delhi for the upcoming MCD polls, today said it would contest all the 272 seats in the elections, scheduled to be held on April 5.

In a press conference here, representatives of Jan Morcha, Nationalist Congress Party, Communist Party of India, CPI(M), Janata Dal (S-Surendra Mohan), All India Forward Bloc and the Revolutionary Socialist Party, which constitute the 'Pragatisheel Jan Morcha,' said they would fight the polls on the issues of price rise, inflated electricity bills, massive loadshedding, fast running meters, corruption, sealing and demolition which had been unleashed on people of Delhi in the last one year.

''Our aim is to give an alternative to the people of Delhi over the misgovernance of the Congress here in the past one year,''president of the Delhi Pradesh NCP Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said at the conference where CPI Secretary Amarjeet Kaur, CPI(M) Secretary P M S Grewal, president of the Delhi Jan Morcha Manjeet Singh, RSP Secretary Bhim Singh and AIFB Secretary Dharmendra Verma were also present.

Mr Bidhuri said the decision to contest all the 272 seats was taken at a meeting of the Morcha constituents held yesterday.

At the meeting, the constituents broadly arrived at a consensus on the seat sharing issue and decided to meet again on March 5 to finalise all issues relating to the MCD polls.

''Both the BJP and the Congress have failed to fulfil the promises made to the Delhi people. Now, the people of Delhi are looking towards the third front for an alternative as they are fed up with the failure of the BJP to provide effective and efficient governance,''Mr Bidhuri claimed.

The representatives also expressed concern over failure of the government to issue the relevant notification for the regularisation of 1500-odd unauthorised colonies in Delhi.

''A similar promise was made by the previous NDA government but it was never implemented,''Ms Amarjeer Kaur said.

She said the people of Delhi also faced fears that after the conclusion of the MCD polls, sealing and demolitions would resume in the capital without any comprehensive package of rehabilitation to the effected people.

On apprehensions that the presence of the third Morcha would cut into the votes of the Congress, thus helping the BJP, Mr Bidhuri said,'' On the contrary, the Morcha will stop the BJP coming to power by garnering the anti-Congress votes. Viewed in this sense, in absence of the Morcha, the anti-Congress votes will go to the BJP.'' UNI