04-16-2009, 12:49 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Hospital project inaugurated thrice, but no sign of brick and mortar</b>
pioneer.com
Abhishek Anshu | New Delhi
With the slogan "<b>Congress ka haath aam admi ke saath</b>," the Congress is portraying itself as the party of the masses but the reality tells a different story.
<b>The residents of Badli village falling under North West Delhi parliamentary constituency has been left cheated for years. As there was no big hospital to cater the medical need of thousands of people living in the vicinity 24 years ago, the Congress promised to set up a hospital in 1985. Though the foundation stone for the hospital was laid down numerous times, the ambitious project has not seen even a brick yet. </b>
The foundation was first laid by late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1985 and the hospital was proposed to be christened as Indira Gandhi Memorial then. It was followed by another foundation laying ceremony by the then Outer Delhi MP, Sajjan Kumar, and the latest was by the former Delhi Health Minister Dr Yoganand Shastri. "Now, we do not even remember who laid the foundations when," <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->Â said Mukesh Kumar, a resident of Badli near this nine acre plot.
"Congress has always tried to play this card during election time but despite having its Government in the centre as well as in Delhi, it has not done anything for starting the construction work," Mukesh added. He also added that with the country gearing up for the upcoming general elections this remains a big question (construction of hospital) for the electorate of the area. "We know leaders will come once again and will try to lure the voters but we are determined this time we will not allow them to take us for granted," he said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
pioneer.com
Abhishek Anshu | New Delhi
With the slogan "<b>Congress ka haath aam admi ke saath</b>," the Congress is portraying itself as the party of the masses but the reality tells a different story.
<b>The residents of Badli village falling under North West Delhi parliamentary constituency has been left cheated for years. As there was no big hospital to cater the medical need of thousands of people living in the vicinity 24 years ago, the Congress promised to set up a hospital in 1985. Though the foundation stone for the hospital was laid down numerous times, the ambitious project has not seen even a brick yet. </b>
The foundation was first laid by late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1985 and the hospital was proposed to be christened as Indira Gandhi Memorial then. It was followed by another foundation laying ceremony by the then Outer Delhi MP, Sajjan Kumar, and the latest was by the former Delhi Health Minister Dr Yoganand Shastri. "Now, we do not even remember who laid the foundations when," <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->Â said Mukesh Kumar, a resident of Badli near this nine acre plot. "Congress has always tried to play this card during election time but despite having its Government in the centre as well as in Delhi, it has not done anything for starting the construction work," Mukesh added. He also added that with the country gearing up for the upcoming general elections this remains a big question (construction of hospital) for the electorate of the area. "We know leaders will come once again and will try to lure the voters but we are determined this time we will not allow them to take us for granted," he said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->