Sheila Dikshit: Kejriwal fooling people on the issue of full statehood

New Delhi Plunging into the thick of election campaigning Congress octogenarian candidate Sheila Dikshit Monday hit out at the BJP and the AAP for failing to meet the aspirations of people and asserted that her party will win all the seven Lok Sabha seats in DelhiCanvassing in various parts of the North East Delhi parliamentary constituency Diskhit said AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal is fooling the people on the issue of full statehood for DelhiThe former chief minister said her party will win all the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi Dikshit who heads Delhi Congress is pitted against her BJP counterpart Manoj Tiwari and former convener of AAPs Delhi unit Dilip Pandey in a triangular contest on North East Delhi seatKejriwal is fooling the people on the issue of full statehood for Delhi she said during her public meetings in North East DelhiHad Kejriwal read the Indian Constitution and understood it well he would not have been repeatedly telling lies to the people on the full statehood issue Asking for full statehood for Delhi meant going against the grain of the Indian constitution and Kejriwal seems to be totally ignorant about the countrys Constitution she saidThe ruling AAP has been attacking both the BJP and Congress over full statehood issue which it has made its central theme of campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections The AAP leaders including Arvind Kejriwal have charged the BJP and Congress of betraying the people of Delhi by going back on their promise for granting full statehood to the cityDikshit said full statehood for Delhi needed amendment in Constitution which the Aam Aadmi Party cannot achieve without the support of a majority in Parliament Dikshit also questioned the AAP over its sincerity towards the issue of full statehood and charged party MPs of never raising it in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya SabhaThe Congress led by Dikshit is banking on various work done by her as Delhis Chief Minister for three consecutive terms from 1998 to 2013 to sail through the Lok Sabha polls The former Delhi Chief Minister attended public meetings at Seemapuri A Block Mother Dairy Subzi Mandi Seelampur Mauzpur E Block Shastri Park New Seelampur and Babu Nagar Chanaiwali gali 25futa Road in the Mustafabad Assembly segmentShe highlighted works done by Congress governments at the Centre and Delhi during in her public meetingsDuring its 15year rule in Delhi Congress undertook major development work as new flyovers schools colleges and hospitals were constructed to make the life of the people easier without crying for full Statehood she saidThe AAP is raising the statehood issue to divert attention of people from its governance failure in Delhi in last four and half years she said citing poor condition of school education transport sanitation and air quality She alleged both AAP and BJP are two sides of the same coin when it comes to governanceA beautiful Delhi left behind by the Congress in 2013 has now been turned into a huge garbage dump as both the BJP ruling the municipal corporations and AAP government have failed to maintain cleanliness and improve the green cover in the capitalThe hike in fairs of Delhi Metro due to collusion between the AAP and the BJP has made it unaffordable for the common people she saidShe claimed Delhi government has so much power even without full statehood status of the city that ruling it could have achieved much more in the last four and half years if it had followed in the footsteps of previous Congress regimeShe said people will vote in favour of Congresss dynamism symbolised by party President Rahul Gandhi and help the party to win all the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi to replace the autocratic governance of Modi governmentCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get the latest updates