Archive · 24 Aug 2026
Yadav urges Congress role in Delhi’s 2047 Master Plan
Delhi is making plans for how the city should develop by 2047.
The Delhi Development Authority plans to ask 20 stakeholders for their ideas.
Congress leader Devender Yadav wants Congress to be included in those discussions.
He says Congress has experience from running Delhi for 15 years.
Yadav says that period produced a cleaner, greener city with better civic facilities.
He says development later slowed because of disagreements involving the previous AAP government, the Centre and the lieutenant governor.
He also says Delhi now faces flooding, pollution, damaged roads and poor public transport.
He wants the DDA to hear from former Congress ministers, lawmakers and other senior leaders.
Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav asked Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu to include Congress in DDA stakeholder discussions.
The Delhi Development Authority plans meetings with 20 stakeholders, including Delhi MPs and MLAs, on implementing the 2047 Master Plan.
Yadav said Congress’s 15-year Delhi government tenure provided experience in planning and developing the capital.
He accused the BJP of politicising Delhi’s development and blamed past AAP-Centre disagreements for stalled Master Plan implementation.
Yadav urged the DDA to consult senior Congress leaders, former ministers, former MLAs and former MPs despite Congress having no Delhi MLA or MP.
- Who
- Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav, Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu, the Delhi Development Authority and Congress leaders.
- What
- Yadav appealed for Congress to be included in stakeholder meetings on implementing Delhi’s 2047 Master Plan.
- When
- The appeal was made in connection with the DDA’s planned stakeholder outreach programme; no specific date was provided.
- Where
- Delhi, India.
- Why
- Yadav said Congress could offer useful experience from its 15-year tenure governing Delhi and help address the capital’s development problems.
- Plan
- Delhi’s 2047 Master Plan
- Implementing agency
- Delhi Development Authority
- Planned stakeholders
- 20 stakeholders, including Delhi MPs and MLAs
- Congress leader
- Devender Yadav, Delhi Pradesh Congress president
- Lieutenant Governor
- Taranjit Singh Sandhu
- Requested participants
- Senior Congress leaders, former ministers, former MLAs and former MPs
- Issues cited
- Rainwater flooding, water and air pollution, broken roads and a deteriorating public transport system