MAYOR BABLA SLAMS CONGRESS-AAP’S ANTI-PEOPLE STANCE, EXPOSES ‘ALLIANCE OF CONVENIENCE’
The Voice of Chandigarh :
Chandigarh, [31 August2025] – Today, Chandigarh Mayor Harpreet Kaur Babla addressed the recent, and frankly baffling, criticism from the members of the Congress-AAP alliance regarding the release of a crucial ₹125 crore from the Central Government to the Chandigarh Administration. This funding, a testament to our persistent efforts, is a lifeline for our city’s Municipal Corporation and a significant step toward improving our urban infrastructure.
It is disheartening to see the alliance’s palpable unhappiness over this development. While residents and stakeholders across Chandigarh are rightfully celebrating this much-needed financial relief, the Congress-AAP seems intent on playing politics with our city’s progress. Their actions reveal a clear pattern: they are upset that the V3 roads have been transferred to the Administration and that the long-overdue recarpeting work is set to begin at an estimated cost of ₹45 crores.
The total relief estimates to about ₹ 170 crores.
The mayor said she had full cooperation from the BJP party and its president Jatinder Pal Malhotra, innumerable meetings were very with senior officials of Chandigarh Administartion time and again.
Opposition’s lack of appreciation is a clear admission of their own inaction and politics over development of the city.
The mayor also thanked the Home Minister Amit Shah & UT Administrator Gulab Chand Kataria for granting this relief.
Let me remind the residents of Chandigarh of a simple fact: had the Congress-AAP alliance not opposed the V3 road agenda in the March house meeting, our roads would have been transferred to administration in march and the re carpeting would have been done by now. The citizens would not have had to endure the deplorable conditions that have plagued our city for months. They chose to obstruct progress then, and they are choosing to do so again.
Their recent behaviour is even more perplexing. They overwhelmingly opposed this very agenda and demanded a vote. I must ask them: a vote for what? Did they not want our roads to be recarpeted? For us recarpeting of roads was the topmost priority by taking help and support from the Chandigarh Administration.
Their silence on the ₹125 crore release speaks volumes. Not a single word of appreciation has been offered, demonstrating their disinterest in the well-being of Chandigarh’s residents. This funding brings much-needed relief to the Municipal Corporation and frees up funds for other critical projects.
It is now clear to them that there is no agenda left for them to play politics on. Their local Member of Parliament, a key figure in this alliance, has had zero contribution and particiaption in securing these funds. In fact, all we have heard from them is constant criticism.
Furthermore, let me remind the public that the financial mess we are currently facing was created by their own alliance’s Mayor last year. This is the same individual who is embroiled in a controversy with an FIR registered against him for alleged corruption, hiring people in the MC by taking money, and burdening the corporation with heavy expenditures on salaries.
This so-called alliance is just an alliance of convenience, designed to fool the people of Chandigarh. At the national level, their alliance is over. In Punjab, they are after each other’s blood. Yet here in Chandigarh, they pretend to be a united front. The residents of Chandigarh are not foolish; they see through this political drama. They understand the whole game being played and have already unmasked their true anti-people and non-development approach in the recent V3 roads agenda.
The residents will surely teach them a lesson in the Municipal Corporation elections of 2026 for their non-development and anti-people approach and stalling pro-development agendas and creating ruckus in the house.
We will continue our work for the betterment of Chandigarh, undeterred by their political theatrics. The people of this city deserve better than petty politics; they deserve a clean, well-maintained, and prosperous Chandigarh, and that is what we are committed to delivering.
