Delhi Election 2020: Congress president Subhash Chopra will lead the elections without contesting

• Congress president Subhash Chopra will not contest the Delhi assembly elections this time but will manage the elections for his party.
  
• On January 18, Congress announced a list of 54 candidates contesting elections — including 33 of them being new entrants.
  
• Cracking down on pollution crisis and clean water supply are the key issues brought up during the assembly polls.
  
• Chopra also told NDTV that if the Congress comes to power, the residents of Delhi will be awarded with 30 paise cashback for each litre of water saved by them.

Congress president Subhash Chopra will not contest the Delhi assembly elections this time but will manage the elections for his party. The party elected the state unit chief as the head of the party's election panel.

On January 18, Congress announced a list of 54 candidates contesting elections — including 33 new entrants. With Delhi assembly elections approaching fast, the key political parties — Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress and the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) — have indulged in a blame game.

In a recent interview with the Economic Times, Congress state president Subhash Chopra said that the AAP has spoiled the national capital in the last five years — adding that AAP and BJP are just two sides of the same coin. Before the AAP came into power in Delhi in 2015, Congress ruled the state for nearly 15 years.

Chopra said that he is confident that the Congress will come to power again in Delhi, winning the majority of votes. He also denied any possibility of an alliance with AAP. This came in response to BJP president Vijay Goel’s statement that said that the opposition parties — Congress and AAP — may forge an alliance in the upcoming assembly elections as both are in accord for protests over CAA, corruption and NRC (National Register of Citizens).

In fact, from rising pollution levels and water supply to surging onion prices and unemployment, he argued with an array of allegations against the AAP. “Onion prices had shot up when Sheila Dikshit was CM too, but she cracked down on hoarders. Kejriwal has not done that. What are they doing?”Chopra told ET.

This is the first time that the national capital is going to polls after the Lok Sabha elections. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP bagged all the seats in Delhi.

Cracking down on pollution crisis and clean water supply are the key issues that will be brought up during the assembly polls. Chopra also told NDTV that if the Congress comes to power, the residents of Delhi will be awarded with 30 paise cashback for each litre of water saved by them — promising free water supply upto 20,000 litres of water a month.

Chopra said that the move will help the city save nearly 30% of drinking water. “The AAP government's free water scheme benefited the water tanker mafia," he said.

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