It Is Congress Vs AAP

upriya Shrinate is one of the prominent leaders of the Congress. She is also the chairperson of Congress' Social Media and Digital Platforms department as well as a member of the Congress Working Committee, the party's highest decision-making body.

- Santu Das

In an interview with Santu Das of The Statesman, she talks about the upcoming Delhi Assembly election, and the work done by the previous Sheila Dikshit-led government in the national capital. She exuded confidence of a Congress win in the polls stating there is strong "anti-incumbency" against the AAP as it had failed to fulfill its promises and called BJP a "non-player", which has been out of power in Delhi for over two decades.

Q: The Election Commission has announced the schedule for Assembly elections in Delhi. What are the issues that the Congress would take up in this poll?

A: Delhi is a place that is very close to the Congress party's heart for multiple reasons. During Sheila Dikshit's tenure, Delhi was built into a world class city. The kind of infrastructure she built and the way she put Delhi on the world map was quite phenomenal.

We have seen a government in Delhi under the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), there has been a lot of publicity and marketing. But, reality is there is precious little that Delhi has got. Delhi has not seen its infrastructure being renewed or rebuilt.

On education, Delhi is amongst five or six Indian states which have seen secondary school admission drop. Its health system completely exploded during the Covid pandemic and thereafter.

(Arvind) Kejriwal, who resigned as the chief minister of Delhi, used to talk of living like a 'common man'. The kind of house that he built, the kind of money that was put in there, the kind of practices that one saw in AAP have been deeply disappointing for the people of Delhi.