CM asks Delhi Cabinet, Congress lawmakers to accept 20 pct salary cut

New Delhi, Sep.17 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has asked her ministers and Congress lawmakers to voluntarily take 20 per cent less salary.

Dikshit is said to have issued a letter to all ministers and Congress MLAs asking them to follow the decision of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) and party president Sonia Gandhi in practising austerity.

The letter by Dikshit came after she received an AICC communication today asking her to implement austerity measures outlined in the CWC last month.

In her letter she asked MLAs and ministers to receive 20 per cent less salary for at least next one year. DPCC chief J P Aggarwal said he has also asked ministers and party MLAs in the city to practice austerity and donate 20 per cent of their salary for drought relief.

"I sent a letter to all the ministers and MLAs asking them to follow the footsteps of our leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in practising austerity," Aggarwal said.

"I told them that we must follow our leader Sonia Gandhi who set an example by travelling economy class to Mumbai. Rahul Gandhi also travelled to Ludhiana in a Chair Car seat in the Shatabdi Express to set an example," he said. (ANI)