NEW DELHI: Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief
Adesh Gupta
distributed 35
Ujwala Gas
connections among the poor on Tuesday during the party’s ongoing ‘Jhuggi Samman Yatra’.
The yatra is designed to address the problems of slum dwellers and get them the benefits of various central government schemes. Prominent slum dwellers were also given social service recognition certificates.
The campaign started from
ITI Camp
,
Jahangirpuri
, after being flagged off by BJP's national general secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam, and concluded at
Sanjay Colony
,
Samaypur Badli
, with a public meeting.
Former mayor of
North Corporation Preety Agrawal
said that as part of this campaign, a special sanitation drive is going on in all the slums under the corporation. The campaign will cover most of the slums in the capital.
Alok K N Mishra is a New Delhi-based journalist with the Times of...
Read MoreAlok K N Mishra is a New Delhi-based journalist with the Times of India. He is an ardent follower of politics and is fascinated about making politics work better for the middle-class and the poor. He loves to discuss and predict national political behavior. Before shifting to Delhi, he covered political instability, governance, and misgovernance besides Maoists insurgency in Jharkhand for almost half a decade. He has been with the Times of India since 2010 when he started out as a municipal reporter in Patna. He tweets from the handle @AlokKNMishra
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