Sources from New Delhi have stated that when looking to regain lost ground in the city, Congress is planning to woo Dalits in the upcoming civic polls. The Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Ajay Maken on Sunday had said the party would organize "Dalit Nyaya March" across the 46 reserved municipal wards to highlight issues related to the community, which, he claimed, had been neglected by both BJP and AAP.
Maken had said the march would start from the
Mangolpuri ward on March 8, a day after Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi addresses a
rally at Ramlila Maidan. It will proceed to 45 other wards over two weeks.
Delhi has 272 municipal wards, of which 46 have been reserved by the state
election commission post-delimitation.
Maken had added that "The Dalit community has suffered the most after the exit of the Congress government in Delhi. They have been neglected by the AAP led Delhi government and the BJP-ruled municipal corporations, a prime example being sanitation workers having to go on strike five times just to get their wages”.
Apart from that Maken had also said pamphlets would be distributed during the march to "expose" both AAP and BJP. He also attacked the BJP led municipal corporations for failing to release salaries to its employees on time. "Sanitation workers went on strike five times in two years. No new recruitments are being done whereas contractual workers are yet to be regularized.
