AAP sets eyes on MCC polls; to field candidates in all 60 wards

Mangaluru, Jul 26: The Dakshina Kannada district unit of Aam Aadmi Party has decided to contest the next Mangaluru City Corporation election. The office bearers of the AAP on Wednesday announced at a press meet that the party would field candidates in all 60 wards of the MCC with an intention to “govern” the future ‘smart city’ and taking it back to the olden days of greenery, grace, grandeur and glory along with modernising it.

Rajendra Kumar, an office bearer of AAP, said that his party was eager to address the age-old problems of the city. “There are garbage, stink and diseases everywhere. Roads not asphalted or concretised for decades. Those asphalted/concretised ones lost their surface in just few weeks due to contractor-corporator greed and corruption. Drains are not done despite big promises, proving hazardous to commuters. Communal tensions increasing,” he said and asserted that the civic body needs an overhaul.

“Governments after governments increase taxes and introduce new ones burdening the common man, but do not provide basic amenities to the people. As if that was not enough, the peaceful co-existence of people of different faiths and castes is increasingly being compromised by sowing the seeds of communal discord and disharmony”

He said that AAP will field 60 honest and caring citizen of Mangaluru to be your representatives in the City Corporation. And they will bring change. Complete change to gain back past glory of the city, which was once peaceful, wise, enterprising and naturally wealthy region.

He recalled that it was in Mangaluru the first public meeting of AAP outside Delhi was held in February 2013, well before the first election success AAP achieved in Delhi in November 2013.

“The party is now pleased to offer a true alternative from all the corrupt and communal political parties, and to unite all Mangalureans as one strong, intelligent community, again to achieve self-sustenance and total development by keeping the interests of its people and environment well protected at all times,” he said.

Jnanasagar Rai, Abdul Lateef, Kabir Katipalla, Swibert D’souza, Arjun Mascarenhas were present at the press meet.