New Delhi, Apr 24 (PTI) The Indian Youth Congress will launch a ‘Behtar Dilli’ campaign, as people in the national capital are “fed up with choking smog, waterlogged streets and towering garbage dumps”, its office-bearers said on Friday.
“Delhi’s people deserve better. This is not just about politics, it is about the air our children breathe, the water our families drink and the garbage mountains our neighbourhoods live under,” IYC president Uday Bhanu Chib said.
During a press conference here, he said that the campaign, anchored in the triple framework of “samvad, sangharsh aur samadhan” (dialogue, struggle and solutions), is going to be a mass movement rather than a routine political protest.
Senior Congress leader and party treasurer Ajay Maken said that the youth wing has drawn up a pointed list of demands targeting the city’s most pressing civic failures.
“Chief among them is the complete removal of all landfill sites — the so-called ‘kacchre ke pahad’ or garbage mountains — by December 2026, alongside the enforcement of daily door-to-door waste collection across all colonies,” Maken said.
Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president Devender Yadav said that the campaign also demands an end to the annual monsoon misery of waterlogged roads, round-the-clock supply of clean drinking water — a perennial grievance in Delhi’s summer months — and installation of CCTV cameras in schools to ensure student safety.
Congress leaders accused both governments — the previous AAP dispensation and the current BJP administration — of passing the buck while Delhiites bore the brunt of administrative inaction.
The campaign will be driven through ground-level outreach, with youth workers fanning out across neighbourhoods to document grievances and mobilise residents, Congress leaders said. PTI VBH VBH APL APL
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