With the Delhi Assembly polls nearing, seven councillors, including one each from JD(U) and BSP, joined the BJP on Wednesday.
State BJP president Vijay Goel, who along with co-incharge of Delhi BJP Navjot Singh Sidhu, was present on the occaion welcomed the councillors into the party fold.
He said the councillors will fully cooperate in ensuring BJP victory in the forthcoming Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
Mr Goel said that people of Delhi and the country are fed-up with the Congress misrule.
“Corruption and price spiral under Congress rule have broken the back of common man. The people want to get rid of it,” he said.
Five councillors out the seven who joined the BJP on Wednesday had contested as Independent candidates. One councillor was elected as BSP candidate and another as JD(U) candidate.
Mr Goel slammed the Delhi government for the power tariff hike. He renewed the promise that the tariff will be slashed by 30 per cent if the BJP comes to power after the Delhi Assembly elections slated to be held in November.
Mr Goel said that the party will hold major rallies on August 11 at Ramlila Grounds.
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4-yr jail for NDMC ex-chairman
New Delhi, July 31: The then chairperson of New Delhi Municipal Council P.M. Singh and three other officers were on Wednesday sentenced to four years’ rigorous imprisonment in a 2003 corruption case by a local court.
Dwarka special court convicted Singh, former IAS of 1972 batch from AGMU cadre and the then chairperson NDMC, in a case of fraudulently regularising the unauthorised construction and granting of lodging house licence to M/s Centre Point, Kasturba Gandhi Marg.
The former medical officer (health) G.S. Thind, CMO Dr R. Pal, and sanitary inspector Raj Kumar Gupta were also sentenced to four years rigorous imprisonment. — PTI