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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers connected Saturday staged a protestation against the Delhi authorities for failing to supply escaped LPG cylinders up of Deepavali.
Ahead of the election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had promised successful its manifesto to supply LPG cylinders for ₹500 each to women from low-income families, and 1 escaped cylinder each during Holi and Deepavali.
“Women successful Delhi person reached the residence of Chief Minister Rekha Gupta successful Shalimar Bagh to request their escaped Diwali cylinder. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had fixed a warrant to the radical of Delhi that each household would person a escaped cylinder connected Holi and Diwali. But the BJP authorities has not fulfilled these promises yet,” AAP Delhi president Saurabh Bharadwaj said successful an X post.
“Even during Holi, women successful Delhi were waiting with anticipation that the BJP authorities would supply 1 escaped cylinder to each location – but it did not. Now Diwali is here, and women are inactive waiting to person the escaped cylinder,” helium added.
The BJP did not respond to the protest.
In March, erstwhile the AAP protested astir women not getting the escaped cylinders earlier Holi, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva had said that radical recognize that launching a large strategy similar escaped state cylinders requires administrative approvals and regulatory frameworks, which instrumentality immoderate time.
He besides said that escaped state cylinders are already being distributed regularly successful galore BJP-ruled States and volition soon beryllium provided successful Delhi arsenic well.
