Promising to make Punjab’s cities number one, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday revealed 10 agendas for the state’s urban areas including 24x7 electricity and water, sanitation, no imposition of new taxes, and no hike in taxes, underground wiring, CCTV network, among other things.

“If elected to power, AAP Government would open mohalla clinics in cities, provide uninterrupted power and water and not impose new taxes or increase the existing ones…We will cover the entire state with CCTV network for women’s safety and to control crime as Delhi has more CCTV cameras than New York, London, and other big cities of the world,” said Kejriwal, who was accompanied by AAP’s Punjab unit president and the chief ministerial face Bhagwant Mann.

Kejriwal claimed that AAP’s government in Delhi had brought down crimes against women by increasing public surveillance.

Addressing the media in Jalandhar after an interaction session with traders and industrialists, Kejriwal said: “After the party announced several guarantees for various sectors, the people from urban

areas approached us and questioned the party’s guarantees for them.

There is a serious issue of cleanliness across cities, including Ludhiana, Bathinda, Amritsar, and Jalandhar. “If AAP is voted to power, we would provide best cleanliness facilities including proper sewage, drainage, solid management, in the cities so that they look beautiful,” he said.

AAP chief further added that it had started door-step services related to various government offices in Delhi where people did not need to make various rounds to government offices, and they could make a call on a helpline number. A Delhi government official would visit their home to collect documents and the service would be delivered in a week or 10 days. Similarly, the party would replicate the system in Punjab also.

“Mohalla clinics and civil hospitals would be revamped; there would be improvement in government schools so that the middle class should not bear the hefty fees of private schools, 24 hours power supply and 24 hours drinking water facility would also be provided,” he said.

“We will make 16000 clinics and renovate hospitals in Punjab,” he said, adding that like Delhi, Punjab too will get all the benefits.

In the last guarantees, he said that the roads in the existing markets in the cities of Punjab were in shambles and had no facility of public toilets or proper parking, so the AAP would create proper infrastructure including parking, public toilets and other facilities for the markets.

Further, Kejriwal urged Punjab to give AAP five years to win the people's hearts. “Industrialists were considered BJP's vote bank in Delhi. I myself am a ‘baniya but Delhi's baniya never voted for me. They started voting after I won their hearts. Give us 5 years, we will win your hearts too”, he said.

KEJRIWAL SUPPORTS LAW AGAINST FORCEFUL CONVERSIONS

AAp supremo Kejriwal on Saturday said that a law should be made against religious conversions, while maintaining that nobody should be harassed by misusing the law.

Kejriwal, addressing a public gathering in Jalandhar, said that a law should be made against forceful religious conversions. “I feel that religion is a private affair of any individual and everyone has the right to worship any religion or religious book, but if somebody is being converted by alluring through money or harassing them then it is wrong,” he said while replying to a query on his stand regarding the conversions taking place in Punjab, particularly in Jalandhar, allegedly by offering money to the poor.

On being asked if a law should be made against such conversions, he said, “A law should certainly be made against religious conversions but such a law should not be misused to harass anyone,” adding, “I personally feel that religious conversion by offering money is wrong”.

AAP GOVT TO TAKE DECISIVE ACTION AGAINST MAJITHIA

Kejriwal, reacting to his rivals attack for seeking apology for huis remarks against SAD leader in a defamation case, said that if he had apologized to SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia, “what has the present government done to put him behind bars”.

“If AAP government comes, decisive action will be taken,” he said.

Responding to a query on Majithia’s alleged involvement in a drugs case, Kejriwal said: “It is not a question of anybody’s admission. There is a law in the country that will decide it.”

AAP HAS NO ROLE IN SIKH PRISONERS’ RELEASE

Facing all out protests over the issue of Sikh prisoner Prof Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar's release after completing his jail sentence, Kejriwal cleared the air saying that from police to judiciary, “no legal body of Delhi is under AAP”.

He said that AAP-led Delhi Government “has no role in the release of prisoners”.