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Elections 2019: In Chandigarh, Sitting MP Kirron Kher Banking On Modi Wave, Development Work

Darpan News Desk IANS, 13 May, 2019 08:01 PM

    BJP candidate Kirron Kher says she is banking on the "Modi wave" and her work as an MP from Chandigarh to sail through the contest to win the seat for the second consecutive term.


    Contesting against Congress nominee Pawan Kumar Bansal, a four-time MP, she blamed him for doing "nothing" for Chandigarh and promised to bring the city to the top position in cleanliness and sanitation. But Mr Bansal has blamed the BJP candidate for a drop in the city's ranking from third to 20th spot in Swachh Survekshan 2019.


    "What has he done for the city? Compare five years of my performance and his 15 years. He did nothing... He does not have any intention to work," Ms Kher claimed.


    Ms Kher shared her vision for the next five years for 'the city beautiful', as it is popularly known, saying she wanted to convert government schools into English medium, promote solar projects and make the city a start-up hub on the lines of Silicon Valley, home to global technology companies.


    Exuding confidence about her victory, she said, "There is a factor of the Modi wave and also the work I carried out in the city in the past five years."


    Listing out her achievements, Ms Kher said she had worked for every sector, including health and education, and pointed out that the upper age limit in government jobs was raised from 25 to 37 years. To solve the growing problem of traffic congestion in the city, Ms Kher batted for bringing in rapid transit system, monorail and mini buses.


    She dismissed Mr Bansal's idea of bringing in the metro rail as "non-feasible", saying a huge financial outlay is needed for its implementation. "What was stopping him from bringing the metro here? He knew the metro could not come here as engineers did not recommend it for a city like Chandigarh," she said, adding that the project, if implemented, would lead to demolition of several markets.


    On Ms Bansal's remark of "restoring lost glory" of Chandigarh, Ms Kher said when the Congress candidate was an MP, the maximum number of slum colonies came up in the city. "We started an exercise of resettling them under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana," she said.


    Kirron Kher is up against Congress candidate Mr Bansal and AAP's Harmohan Dhawan from Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat. In 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Ms Kher had won from Chandigarh seat by defeating Bansal with a margin of 69,642 votes. Polling to Chandigarh parliamentary constituency will take place on May 19.

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