Cong to field top leaders in campaign for Delhi civic polls

Eyeing a comeback in the national capital, the Congress will field its top guns including P Chidambaram, Salman Khurshid, Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh in the campaign for the Delhi municipal polls, DPCC chief Ajay Maken today said.
Maken will launch the party's campaign, titled 'Dilli ki baat, Dil ke saath', on March 25 through a Facebook live session and corner meetings across the city. The party plans to hold a total of 200 small gatherings.
Maken said senior party leaders including Chidambaram, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Ramesh, Tharoor and Khurshid are being roped in to prepare a roadmap to help the corporations tide over financial crunch, solid waste management and to reform primary education and health.

Addressing a press conference, he said if Congress is voted to power in the three corporations, Rs 2,000 crore would be earmarked for the development of unauthorised colonies, resettlement colonies and slum clusters in the city.
The party had on March 6 released a draft blueprint to restructure the three cash-strapped civic bodies and said these would be made financially self-reliant if it manages to wrest power from the BJP.