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FOR FAVOUR OF PUBLICATION NEW DELHI, Jan. 6—Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) president Shri Jai Prakash Agarwal, MP deplored the decision to make it mandatory for everyone to carry a photo identity card in Delhi from January 15, 2008 as he felt that it was an impractical move to implement such a decision in a haste, and will only lead to corruption and harassment of citizens. Shri Agarwal said Delhi was a world class metropolitan city in which people from all over the country and all over the world lived and a large number visited the Capital daily on various purposes and they will be put to a lot of harassment and as a consequence, if other States also made it mandatory for people from outside their State to carry photo ID cards, then people of Delhi visiting other States will also face similar harassment. Shri Agarwal said many of the people living in the JJ Clusters, resettlement colonies, daily wage earners, those working in private firms, people involved in self employment and a large section of society were without any photo identity cards-- or any identity card at all-- and it would be a grossly unwise move to make it mandatory for everyone in Delhi to carry a photo ID card from January 15 without giving sufficient notice or time to implement such a scheme. Shri Agarwal said the Delhi Congress was totally opposed to the implementation of the photo ID scheme in a haste, as it would only lead to the harassment of the people and highhandedness by the checking police as lakhs of people were without any proof of identity cards. PRAMOD KUMAR The Chief Reporter New Delhi. |
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