Sandeep Dikshit included in Congress's Delhi election panel

Apart from Dikshit, four other leaders - former Union ministers Kapil Sibal and Krishna Tirath, and Yoganand Shastri and Mateen Ahmed -- have been named as the members of the committee headed by Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Arvinder Singh.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi had on November 25 approved the Pradesh Election Committee (PEC), Manifesto Committee, Publicity Committee and Disciplinary Committee for the ensuing Assembly elections in Delhi.

Controversial figures and former Congress MPs Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar did not figure on any of the panels recently set up by the party for polls in Delhi.

Sheila Dikshit and Ajay Maken are members the poll panel which will look after the preparations for the forthcoming Assembly elections.

Source: Chhattisgarh Hindi News and MP Hindi News

Delhi Congress targets BJP, AAP over increased power bills

Addressing a rally at the Uttam Nagar constituency here, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) chief Arvinder Singh Lovely said it was for the first time that without any official inquiry or request, power load has been increased automatically.
  
"People of Delhi were expecting that the power bills will be lowered. But the way power bills have increased, it exposes the BJP and AAP who had promised a 30 and 50 percent decrease in power bills, " Lovely said .
  
He further said that the power hike roll-back in November was a 'temporary solution' given by the BJP.
  
"I want to tell them that in the coming elections, the people of Delhi will give a permanent solution to the problem and bring us back to power," he added.

Source: Chhattisgarh Hindi News and MP Hindi News

Delhi BJP chief names new team

Upadhyay, who had a round of consultation with central leadership, has not included any MLA in his team and given important roles to councillors instead.

South Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri has retained the post of general secetary while two councillors - Ashish Sood and Rekha Gupta-- have also been appointed to the post.

The general secetary's post is said to be important in the party setup as they are expected to perform all major organisational tasks in the event of the party forming a government in Delhi.

The list of new Delhi BJP team was released late last night.

Upadhyay has also appointed eight new vice-presidents. These are Tilak Raj Katari, Rajni Abby, Vishakha Sailani, Jai Prakash, Shikha Rai, Abhay Verma, Kiran Chaddha and Kuljeet Chahal.

Besides, eight new secetaries have also been appointed and Kamaljeet Sherawat has been named the new women's wing president.

Nakul Bhardwaj has been appointed youth wing president. Aman Sinha, Poonam Jha Azad, Harish Khurana, Rajeev Barbara and Dipika Sharma have been appointed as spokesperson while Praveen Shankar Kapoor is the new media convenor in the Upadhyay's team.

Source: MP News in Hindi and Chhattisgarh Hindi News