MCD Elections 2017: BJP councillor Chander Prakash joins Congress, says in agreement with party’s vision

Prakash's move of joining Congress comes after BJP announced that the party will not give tickets to the sitting councillors to re-contest the MCD polls.

Updated: March 29, 2017 10:17 AM IST

By Sohit Mishra

MCD Elections 2017: BJP councillor Chander Prakash joins Congress, says in agreement with party's vision
(Pic courtesy- The Hindu)

New Delhi, Mar 29: With less than a month left for the upcoming Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, Bharatiya Janata Party‘s (BJP) sitting councillor from Govindpuri, Chander Prakash joined Congress on Tuesday. Addressing the media, the Chander Prakash said that he joined Congress as he believed in the party’s policy. “I am in agreement with the vision of the Congress and I wish to work for the upliftment of the poor and the downtrodden,” he said.

In 2012, Prakash had won the elections on a Janata Dal (United) ticket and later joined BJP expressing faith in the party. Prakash’s move of joining Congress comes after BJP announced that the party will not give tickets to the sitting councillors to re-contest the MCD polls.

Joining Congress, the Govindpuri councillor said that in 2013, the former Kalkaji MLA Subhash Chopra had started working on a 14-storey apartment that would benefit 3,000 families living in the slum areas but despite the work began in 2013, it has not yet been completed due to the ignorance of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). “When I became a Municipal Councillor from the Govindpuri ward in South Delhi, Subhash Chopra made efforts to start a project to build an in-situ 14-storey flat complex to settle around 3,000 families living in the JJ Clusters. The work on the flats, which began in 2013, should have been completed in three years, but the AAP has not done anything to complete the construction of these flats,” he said. (Also read: AAP MLA Ved Prakash Satish joins BJP, says more MLAs ready to join saffron party)

Chander Prakash is the second sitting councillor to join Congress ahead of the MCD elections. On February 9, AAP sitting councillor Anil Malik joined Congress stating that AAP has failed to live up to its promises. In a recent interview, senior Congress leader Ajay Maken had stated that many politicians from BJP and AAP are in talks with him and want to join the party.

Congress workers demand ‘fair ticket distribution’

Meanwhile, several Congress youth members protested outside the party office of Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi, demanding fair distribution of tickets for the MCD elections. The party workers questioned the delaying of the announcement of candidate list for the municipal elections and also demanded more representation of youths in the upcoming polls.

Considered as a triangular battle between BJP, AAP and Congress, polling for the three corporations of Delhi is scheduled to be held on April 23 and the result for the same will be declared on April 26.

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