BJP having emerged victorious in recently held elections to three municipal corporations of Delhi has always been in favour of a unified civic body. Undoubtedly trifurcation of one Municipal Corporation of Delhi in earlier Congress regime was not correct, because it unnecessarily increased overhead-burden on people of Delhi. But big question is feasibility of re-merger, because no one of the newly elected corporator will like to lose his or her seat because of reduced number of elected representatives in the unified civic body.
Best is to prepare an altogether fresh strategy for next round of elections. There may be just two civic bodies in Delhi, one for trans-Yamuna and other for rest of the city because needs and problems of trans-Yamuna area are certainly different. If one unified civic body is planned, then it should be given additional powers through a central legislation in a manner that concept of a state-assembly in Delhi may be altogether abolished. Happenings reveal that present structure of a state-assembly in Delhi is merely a white-elephant on Delhi-exchequer funded by hard-earned money of tax-payers.
Declassification of constituencies for Lok Sabha should be done in a manner that trans-Yamuna area may have two exclusive Lok Sabha constituencies with no other part of other side of Yamuna covered by these. Rest of the city can then be distributed amongst remaining five Lok Sabha constituencies.
SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL