Don’t Tell us what you are going to do, tell us what you have done in 10 years, Tewari challenges Tandon

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Chandigarh, May 15, 2024:- Senior Congress leader and INDIA bloc candidate from the Chandigarh parliamentary constituency Manish Tewari today asked the Bharatiya Janata Party to tell the people of Chandigarh what it had done for the 'City Beautiful' during the last ten years.

"Don't tell us again as what you are going to do, just tell us what you have done during last ten years", he told the BJP, while adding, "this is the time for the BJP to answer the questions of the people of Chandigarh and not make any fresh promises which end up in proverbial 'jumlas' like these ended up during last ten years".

Tewari reiterated that the Congress was committed to mass welfare and referred to the Mahalakshmi scheme under which every poor family across the country will receive Rs 8500 every month directly in the bank account of one of its lady members. 

He said that during the last ten years, about twenty crore families had again slipped below the poverty line. Direct monthly cash assistance of Rs 8500 will help to bring them out of the poverty, BJP government pushed them into, he observed. 

The former union minister said that the BJP can not run away from the answers anymore. He pointed out, unlike in other parliamentary constituencies which consist of assembly segments, an MP is the only legislative representative for Chandigarh. He said, the MP is as much accountable and answerable for local issues as s/he is for the national issues. 

Elaborating on the 'Mahalakshmi Scheme', Tewari said, poor families across the country will be identified, irrespective of their caste, creed or region and one lady member of the family will receive Rs 8500 every month.

He promised that the scheme will start from July 1, 2024 when the families will start receiving the cash directly after the INDIA bloc forms government at the centre once results are declared on June 4.

 

Padyatra in Sector 40, Kaimwala

Tewari carried out 'padyatras' in Sector 40 and Kaimbwala areas, where he met scores of people and interacted with them. He spoke about their problems and assured to resolve these immediately after the elections.