Chandigarh: Residents' societies set to grill candidates

CHANDIGARH: The stage is all set by the residents' federations for the contesting candidates of the

Lok Sabha elections

as both have decided that they are going to have a question-answer round with them on city issues. In the March meeting, both Crawfed and Foswac have decided that they would call the contesting candidates in their April meeting in which they will ask them about their plans on various pending issues.


The federations are also keen on asking the ruling party candidate whether they were able to fulfil the manifesto promises in the past five years or not? If the answer is no, then they will have to give a reason for it.

Members of both federations were of the view that even though the political parties would not be allowed to use their platform for their campaign but the idea to call them in their meetings was to know the road map which they had for the city, which required an upgrade.

Foswac listed out the issues which they want to raise with the MP of the city. Baljinder Singh Bittu, chairman of Foswac, said that there was a need of a hospital on the lines of PGI to lessen the burden on it and upgrading of infrastructure by having more flyovers to ease out traffic.

Besides, they also raised the issue of bad state of city roads. The upgrading of seats in engineering and health institutions is another issue they will be raising as the city population has increased. He said that the candidates would have to respond to these and state their plans on the issues.

Hitesh Puri, chairman of Crawfed, said those issues related to the central government would be asked from the candidates.

He said that they were chalking out a list of issues which they would raise with the MP.