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Kejriwal's Janata Durbar leaves some smiling, few frowning
Ghaziabad, Feb 20
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal's three-day public meeting concluded here Friday, with many of
the visitors expressing satisfaction after a patient hearing but a few
being irked at not getting an audience with him.
Most of the
1,000-odd people had come to apprise Kerjiwal about their problems. But
there were some who felt peeved at the preference being given to some
VIP visitors over the Aam Aadmi (common people).
A visitor,
Ashish Gupta from Model Town who came just to greet the new chief
minister of Delhi for his historic electoral victory, was disappointed
after being made to wait for his turn for about an hour.
He
complained of some visitors being allowed to meet Kejriwal on a priority
basis. "This is the discrimination for which Arvind Kejriwal had been
fighting against VIP culture."
An Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) worker
said the problem lasted for a short while and that too with just
two-three people but later there was no such problem experienced by any
visitor.
"Earlier, there was no system to meet the chief minister
but the overwhelming response to meet the popular CM creates some
problems for the organisers," the worker added.
The visitors, from all sections of society, included some disabled people.
They
were allowed to meet Kejriwal, bypassing the queue. They expressed
satisfaction at having been heard patiently by the chief minister and
hoped their problems would be solved.
On Friday, about 300 visitors met Kejriwal at his Kaushambi office, apprising him of their problems.
Some of them had complaints regarding water supply in certain areas. The chief minister assured them of relief at the earliest.
Some
visitors from the trans-Yamuna areas complained of the poor condition
of power lines that disrupted electricity supply to them. Kejriwal
assured them of solving their problem and told them that work is on at
the government level.
The Janata Durbar finally concluded with
over 1,000 people meeting the chief minister with their problems over
three days -- Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.