Among those present were former city ministers A. To back his claim, he released a 41-page booklet which provided a detailed statistical back-up on various sectors where the Congress government had done a commendable job.".Leaving no stone unturned to attack the Kejriwal government’s three-year performance for its failure to take city forward, Mr Maken used the occasion to shower praises on the 15-year-old rule of Ms Dikshit by saying that all the development works were undertaken during her tenure. On the public transport, Mr Maken said the Congress government had added 3,125 DTC buses, opened 12 bus depots and constructed a massive 193 kilometer metro network." The Congress party had faced a humiliating defeat in the Assembly elections in which it was not able to win even a single seat.About the education sector, Mr Maken said the Congress government had opened six universities, six deemed universities, 22 general education colleges and 20 professional educational colleges. I should have taken this initiative as the PCC president. To a pointed question that had the two leaders come together in the past, the party would have fared much better in Assembly and civic elections, Mr Maken said: "You are correct.New Delhi: Shunning their differences, Delhi Congress president Ajay Maken and former chief minister Sheila Dikshit addressed their first joint press conference after AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal took over as the chief minister of the national capital three years ago in 2015.
The occasion also saw supporters of the two leaders coming together on the same stage.4 lakh others died due to cholera, diarrhea and other diseases during this period.K. My mistake. He aid that 75 flyovers and 4,308 Km roads were also added during the Congress rune. "Leave aside Lokpal in Delhi, the party has in fact removed its internal Lokpal as well. On the other hand, he said the AAP government had deleted 1,273 DTC buses and got the Metro-III Handheld Shower Head for sale projects delayed by more than two years.Praising Ms Dikshit for opening 14 new hospitals, 243 dispensaries and 84 maternal centers, Mr Maken said the Kejriwal government has in return closed 111 dispensaries and there were a record 9,149 deats in a single year from respiratory diseases and 1. The occasion also saw Mr Maken publicly admitting to the fact that he himself was to be blamed for not taking an initiative to actively involve Ms Dikshit in the party’s day-to-day affairs. Walia, Haroon Yusuf, Mangat Ram Singhal, Ramakant Goswami, Yoganand Shastri and Kiran Walia, former Speaker Subhash Chopra, former MPs Sajjan Kumar and Mahabal Mishra and Delhi Mahila Congress chief Sharmishtha Mukherjee.
But, he said that 98,000 students had left government schools and Rs 1,982 crore got lapsed in this sector in the last two years.Mr Maken said that the AAP government had cheated people by not appointing Lokpal in Delhi, the plea on which it got 67 of the 70 seats in the Assembly.The packed media conference also saw Ms Dikshit criticizing her successor by saying that his government was spending more money on advertisements rather spending the same on the welfare measures. The party faced another electrifying defeat in the municipal elections in the three civic bodies. and infrastructure projects. The two leaders recently broke ice after Mr Maken personally visited the former CM’s residence, following which she assured him that she would aggressively campaign for all the party candidates who will contest the bypolls in the 20 Assembly seats, whose legislators had been disqualified over the contentious office of profit issue.
