DPCC president Shri Arvinder Singh Lovely introduces the three Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha elections from Delhi, Shri Jai Prakash Agarwal (Chandni Chowk), Dr Udit Raj (North West Delhi) and Shri Kanhaiya Kumar (North East Delhi), before the media at a press conference, and tell them about

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DELHI,—Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Shri Arvinder
Singh Lovely, along with Chairman of the Election Management Committee and
Co-ordination Committee Shri Subhash Chopra, introduced the three Congress
candidates for the Lok Sabha seats from
Delhi, Shri Jai Prakash Agarwal (Chandni Chowk), Dr Udit Raj (North West Delhi)
and Shri Kanhaiya Kumar (North East Delhi), before a crowded media conference
and told them about the priorities of the party at the DPCC office, Rajiv
Bhawan, here today. Others present were chairman of the DPCC Communications
Department and ex-MLA Shri Anil Bharadwaj, former Leader of the House in the
MCD Shri Jitender Kumar Kochar and spokesperson Shri Anuj Attrey.

Shri Lovely said that Shri Jai Prakash Agarwal
was not only a former MP from Chandni Chowk, who had been a member of both the
Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha several times, but also a former Municipal Councillor
and Deputy Mayor, and president of the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee, and
carries a wealth of Parliamentary experience, which he had always used for the
development of the thickly populated constituency, consisting of traders,
businessmen, common people, workers, minorities, and various other category of people. He said that Dr
Udit Raj, who was a former MP from North West Delhi, is also a prominent Dalit
leader who had done commendable works for the uplift of the underprivileged and
in the development of North West Delhi. Shri Lovely said that Shri Kanhiya
Kumar was a dynamic young scholar from the JNU, where he was also the president
of the Students’ Union. He said that all the three Congress candidates will
record historic wins in the Lok Sabha elections.

Shri Jai Prakash Agarwal said that Chandni
Chowk was “Dilli Ka Dil”, and he was not only a voter of the constituency, but
had also played a major role in the development of the Constituency, as he
knows every nook and cranny of the constituency. He said that it was very
unfortunate that Chandni Chowk had been neglected for the past 10 years, as the
BJP MPs never raised the issue of the area in Parliament, despite BJP being in
power at the Centre. He said that he had asked over 1000 questions in the House
when the Congress-led UPA Government was in power at the Centre, as he spared
no effort in raising the issues of Chandni Chowk and its people in both the
houses of Parliament for the redressal of the problems of the constituency.

Dr Udit Raj said that when he was the MP of
North West Delhi, he had ensured the all-round development of the constituency,
and even exceeded the Rs 25 crore sanctioned for MPs for development works, by spending over Rs 41
crore. He said that he had adopted four model villages for special development,
and changed the face of Narela. He said all development works had been stalled
in the constituency for the past five years, and his first priority would be to
resume those unfinished works to fulfil the vision of Shri Rahul Gandhi and
Shri Mallikarjun Kharge.

Shri Kanhaiya Kumar said that no development
seemed to have taken in the North East Delhi Parliamentary constituency for the
past ten years, as the traffic congestion, pollution and broken roads in the
Karawal Nagar area expose the hollow claims of the BJP MP. He said that the
wealth of the country seemed to have been concentrated in the hands of a chosen
few while the common people suffer due to price rise, unemployment and lack of
avenues to earn their livelihood. He said that Congress will implement MGNREGA
(Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) like scheme in all the
seven Parliamentary constituencies in Delhi to provide jobs to the youth, as
unemployment was the highest in the national Capital, and the youth were
bearing the brunt of joblessness.