New Delhi, May 24: The BJP will conduct a month-long outreach programme in Delhi, highlighting the Narendra Modi government’s contribution to the growth of infrastructure in transport, health and the social sector in the national capital, party leaders said on Wednesday.
The outreach programme will be supervised by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani.
The Modi government has developed Delhi in every field, including education, health, transport, road infrastructure, pollution control and public welfare, among others, at the cost of lakhs of crores of rupees, the BJP’s Delhi unit chief Virendra Sachdeva said at a joint press conference.
“When we pass through the Kartavya Path of New Delhi, we realise our duties towards the country,” Sachdeva said, listing various works done by the BJP-led Centre.
The campaign to raise awareness about what the Modi government has done for the people of Delhi in its nine years will commence on May 30.
Rupani and Jaishankar will supervise the campaign in the city’s seven Lok Sabha constituencies, party leaders said.
Leader of Opposition in Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said he has not witnessed any other central government undertake so many works in Delhi as done by the Modi government in its nine years.
Bidhuri claimed that in the current financial year alone, the Modi government has spent Rs 60,000 crore for the development of highways in and around Delhi, Rs 8,000 crore on hospitals, Rs 10,355 crore on the Delhi Police, Rs 7,643 crore on the Delhi Development Authority, Rs 4,743 crore on the New Delhi Municipal Council, Rs 13,000 crore on the expansion of the Delhi Metro and Rs 3,000 crores on other heads. All these projects combined totalled a whopping Rs 1.5 lakh crore. (PTI)
