Ministers given active role in MCD elections
The proposal for the MCD trifurcation is yet to be cleared by the home ministry, but chief minister Sheila Dikshit has set in motion the preparations to boost the chances of a Congress win in the municipal polls slated for early 2012.
Each of the six ministers in her cabinet will be assigned an area under each of the seven parliamentary constituencies. They will co-ordinate with the MLAs and councillors of that area to strengthen the party’s base in the run-up to the elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), which is now under the BJP.
Sources said that during the meeting with her cabinet colleagues, the CM proposed to meet Union home minister P Chidambaram to seek an early clearance of the MCD trifurcation proposal so that a special session of the Delhi Assembly could be called to get its seal. She wants the 2012 polls to take place under the new system, they said. The proposal also calls for reservation of 50% of the seats for women.
Dikshit reportedly told all the ministers to focus on building momentum at the grassroot level. According to the plan, each of them will be assigned the area of a parliamentary constituency. Delhi has seven parliamentary constituencies with 70 Assembly seats and 272 municipal wards. Each minister will be required to meet the MLAs of that parliamentary constituency and find out the problems and concerns to figure out the important issues and get feedback through them from the councillors and party workers in the area. This feedback will be utilized for framing poll strategies.
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