Rajya Sabha MP and Former BJP Delhi President Shri Vijay Goel urged Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Shri Najeeb Jung to declare Chhath Puja, a public holiday in Delhi. Shri Goel is committed to his stand for demanding a public holiday on Chhath Puja and has repeatedly made this demand. He will now meet Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh regarding the same.
 
In a letter to LG, Shri Goel said, “Chhath Puja in Delhi witnesses participation from lakhs of people especially purvanchalis. Declaring Chhath Puja a public holiday will help lakhs of purvanchalis and people of Delhi, to celebrate their festival without any work stress”.
 
With an absence of Government in Delhi, Lieutenant Governor Shri Najeeb Jung should ensure necessary arrangements are made and that the administration provides all the help for smooth conduct of the festival in the city. Lakhs of devotees throng Yamuna during festivals like Chhath Puja, Ganesh Chaturthi etc. We must ensure proper safety around the ghats to avoid any possible mishaps. Last year, Delhi witnessed a tragic episode when several people drowned and were left injured on the banks of Yamuna.
 
Shri Goel said, “Safety at the ghats, deployment of sufficient number of police personnel, life guards, ambulance, transport facility, traffic management measures for safety of women should be adequately taken care of on priority. Devotees, pilgrims and common people visiting the Chhath Puja ghats should not be left in the lurch”.
 
“Party workers should come out, volunteer and participate in the celebration of Chhath Puja. Party workers can be given disaster management training and they can be deployed along Yamuna, canals and other water bodies in all the districts of Delhi”, he added.
 
Shri Goel will launch ‘Swachhta Abhiyaan’ on banks of river Yamuna on Chhath Puja and will make an appeal to all responsible citizens to not litter around ghats and maintain cleanliness while performing puja.

Rajya Sabha MP and Former BJP Delhi President Shri Vijay Goel today extended his heartiest greetings to the whole of Delhi on the occasion of Diwali. He expressed hope that the festival of lights brightens the lives of the one and all and fills it with health, wealth and happiness.
 
Shri Goel said, “Everyone must celebrate this wonderful festival of Diwali with great fervour but one must take necessary precautions when lighting fireworks.”
 
I urge all responsible citizens of Delhi to boycott lighting any noise generating fireworks. Let’s move towards a happy and noise pollution free diwali.

Rajya Sabha MP and Former BJP Delhi President Shri Vijay Goel called upon Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Shri Najeeb Jung and made an appeal that ‘Swachhta Abhiyaan’ should be massively promoted in schools. School children will take Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s message to nook and corner in the city. They will be an inspiration and make sure that their parents too maintain a clean environment and not litter.

Shri Goel said, “LG should encourage MCD to be more proactive regarding cleanliness drives. Tonnes of large stones are lying around on roads which cause accidents and squalor; they should be moved at the earliest possible.”

“A meeting of RWAs should be convened; they can monitor work in their localities and can assign responsibility for MCDs. It is imperative to get dustbins placed across Delhi with support from RWAs.  We can take the help of Senior Citizen Federation for this work”, said Shri Goel.

Lieutenant Governor of Delhi assured Goel that he will surely implement suggestions made by him.

Shri Goel today participated in a cleanliness drive in Paharganjj area with Mayor Shri Yogendra Chandolia. He reprimanded MCD officials for garbage lying on roads. It was found that vehicles parked on streets for months have dust collecting on it and garbage all around it.

District President and MCD Councillor Shri Virendra Babbar, BJP Delhi Pradesh Mahila Morcha President Sudha Sharma, Mandal President Ramesh Kapoor, Rajan Khanna and Rajpal etc accompanied Shri Goel for this cleanliness drive.

Goel has actively participated in cleanliness drive across Delhi through the week.

Rajya Sabha MP and Former BJP Delhi President Shri Vijay Goel today congratulated Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, Party President Shri Amit Shah and people of Haryana and Maharashtra for Bharatiya Janata Party’s historic win in these two states.
 
On this occasion Shri Goel said, “Its Modijis vision, policies, hardwork and performance that is responsible for a historic win in the state of Haryana and Maharashtra; BJP will form govt in these two states. I thank the people of these two states for giving BJP such a historic mandate.”

Rajya Sabha MP and Former BJP Delhi President Shri Vijay Goel today met MCD Commissioner Shri P.K Gupta and told him today it is important to make MCD more active especially in Chandni Chowk area which attracts thousands of tourists. There is a urgent need to clean up the area and to lay the overhead wires, underground. 
 
Today Shri Goel visited Lakshmi Nagar area with Chairman of Standing Committee of EDMC Shri B.B Tyagi and participated in a cleanliness drive with party workers and cleaned road and park.
 
Shri Goel visited Lalita Park to take observe the condition of DJB’s Rainy well. The area surrounding it was in a filthy condition, a breedin ground for mosquitoes and growth of unnecessary wild grass and plants which has led to fear of outbreak of diseases in the area. Looking at this condition, Shri Goel immediately spoke to the Jal Board CEO Shri Vijay Kumar asked him to get the area cleaned in a week’s time.
 
Shri Goel called upon members of RWA, common man and made an appeal to public that everyone should contribute towards this endeavour of keeping their area clean. People should immediately inform their area councilor or register complaint on MCD helpline to report places where garbage is lying around in the area.
 
Today at the Cleanliness Drive, Shri Vijay Goel was accompanied by Chairman of Standing Committee Sh. B.B Tyagi, Mandal President Smt Sandhya Pandey, District Gen Secy Shri Rajesh Gupta and party workers.
 
Shri Goel said, “Various departments are unaware of their assets and location of their buildings wherein vacant spaces are not even being utilized because of which these places are becoming filthy and dirty.

Rajya Sabha MP and Former BJP Delhi President Shri Vijay Goel committed himself to participate in cleanliness drives under ‘Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan Campaign’ across Delhi every day.
 
Shri Goel said, “Delhi is the capital of the country and should set an example for others.” Tomorrow Shri Goel will participate in a cleanliness drive from Canara Bank, Nangia Park, Shakti Nagar with MCD Councilor Arvind Garg, workers and on Saturday, October 18 with MCD Councilor B.B Tyagi at Community Centre, Ramesh Park, Lakshmi Nagar. 
 
Goel said, “If any voluntary organization invites me for cleanliness drives, I would definitely participate.”

Rajya Sabha MP and former Delhi BJP President Sh. Vijay Goel today urged in a letter to Union Home Minister Sh. Rajnath Singh  that adequate compensation should be paid to the martyred cop Jagbir’s family. He also urged the Home Minister to take up the case of the injured Delhi Constable Narendra and suggested that Narendra should also be rewarded for his bravery.
 
In his letter to the Union Home Minister, Sh. Goel said, “I urge you that adequate compensation should be paid to the family of the martyred cop.  This would help the bereaved family and go a long way in boosting the moral of all those brave cops who put their lives at risk to make Delhi safe for its citizens.
I also urge you to give appropriate directions to the authorities concerned that atleast one member of the martyr’s family should be immediately offered a suitable government job.
Constable Narendra should also be rewarded appropriately for the brave act of reaching police station for help despite being shot.”
 The martyred cop Jagbir, had served in the Army prior to joining the Delhi Police in 2008. He was given the Best Beat Officer award twice during his six-year stint with the force. 
 
The Delhi Police Constables Jagbir and Narendra had signalled an auto-driver to stop while doing night patrol duty. They asked him to take it to the nearby police station when one of the men inside shot Constable Jagbir in the chest. An injured Jagbir asked constable Narendra to rush to the police station and get help, telling him that he would not allow the criminals to escape till then.
However the assailants in the auto-rickshaw also shot Narendra but still he managed to reach the police station and inform a colleague before collapsing. Meanwhile,  showing exemplary bravery and commitment to his duty Jagbir hung on to the auto-rickshaw and was dragged for almost 50 metres.The two policemen were taken to a hospital where Jagbir was declared dead on arrival while Narendra is under treatment.

Rajya Sabha MP and former Delhi BJP President Sh. Vijay Goel today urged the Delhi Police Commissioner Sh. B.S. Bassi to launch a special driver against child trafficking. In wake of the “Jahanvi incident”, Sh. Goel met Sh. Bassi today and shared his concern over the Capital of the country gaining notoriety.
 
“On an average 18 children go missing everyday from Delhi, and one fourth of them are never found. In the year 2013, around 6500 children went missing from Delhi, 53 per cent of them were girls and around 1440 of them were not found,” said Sh. Goel.
 
It is clear that Delhi has become a major hub for child trafficking. This is a cause of grave concern as our police force doesn’t seem to be well equipped to handle this situation.
 
“Delhi Police needs to have better training, specialised units to handle such cases and there is an urgent need of a mobile application to facilitate search operation. We have seen in Jahanvi’s case that social media and technology can be every effective in finding lost children.”
 
Sh. Goel also told the Police Commissioner that the Delhi Police should launch special recruitment drive to recruit more women personnel.  The women personnel should constitute at least 33 percent of the Delhi Police.
 
Sh. Goel suggested that the Delhi Police should start registering online FIRs for atleast non-cognizable offences. The complainants should be allowed to lodge their complaints online and the FIR should be registered digitally. This will help a large number of people who face lot of difficulty in registering their complaints in police stations even for petty offences. This would also reduce pressure on the local police stations. To this, the commissioner assured Mr. Goel that soon FIR will be registered online.
 
Sh. Goel pointed out to the Commissioner of Police that a large number of unclaimed vehicles have been lying in several parts of Delhi. They should be identified and removed immediately as this would help to ease the traffic congestion. Also, the Delhi Traffic Police should take action against commercial vehicles being parked in several residential areas and local markets.

On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti and launch of ‘Swacch Bharat Abhiyan’, Rajya Sabha MP and Former BJP Delhi President Shri Vijay Goel will lead cleanliness drive with railway officers, staff and school children at Shivaji Bridge Railway Station, Minto Road at 11 AM on 2nd October.
 
Shri Goel said, “Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi has envisioned a clean India. However, the condition of public places is such that they can be called nothing but unhygienic and filthy. Today it’s important to convert this campaign into a massive mass movement to achieve our aim of a ‘Clean India’. I appeal to one and all to not litter in public for little contribution by one and all will help us be closer to our goal of a “Swachh Bharat’.”
 
Shri Goel said, “Yesterday, I visited Museum at Lahori Gate and was appalled to see it in an unsanitary, dirty condition. I raised this concern with MCD Commissioner who has assured immediate action in this regard.”
 
I call upon one and all to participate in the ‘Swachh Bharat Campaign’ whole heartedly and to be dedicated towards this endeavour and to the tenets of cleanliness in your daily affairs.
 
Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan is a massive mass movement that seeks to create a Clean India. Cleanliness was very close to Mahatma Gandhi’s heart. A clean India is the best tribute we can pay to Bapu when we celebrate his 150th birth anniversary in 2019. Mahatma Gandhi devoted his life so that India attains ‘Swarajya’. Now the time has come to devote ourselves towards ‘Swachchhata’ (cleanliness) of our motherland.

Rajya Sabha MP and former Delhi University Students Union President Sh. Vijay Goel today sought Union Law Minister Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad’s intervention to ensure that law graduates from around 70 colleges including Delhi University’s faculty of law are allowed to enroll as advocate and they shouldn’t get punished for no fault of their.
In a letter to the Union Law Minister Sh. Goel said, “While the BCI may have a justified point but why should the students of these institutes suffer for any dereliction of duty by the management and faculty members of these institutes, universities and law colleges. They have spent three precious years of their lives to make a career in legal profession and now they are being stopped from being enrolled as advocates for no fault of theirs.”
The impact of this situation is being felt across all over the country as the law graduates and students affected due to the BCI’s directives are spread over a number of states, said Sh. Goel.
“The students who are in first, second and third year of the law course in these colleges are also looking at a ruined career even before it has begun for them. I am deeply concerned by these developments as the students and their parents are running from pillar to post to get some assurance regarding safety of the carrer of these young men and women,” he added
“In view of these circumstances, I urge you to intervene in this matter and find a solution to assure that the law graduates from Delhi University and several other colleges should be able to  get a  registered as advocates with bar council while ensuring that the  quality of legal education is not compromised,” said Sh. Goel.
He added, “I would also urge you to ensure that if any of the colleges is disaffiliated by the BCI, then a provision should be made to shift the students to a recognised law college in future so that they do not suffer due to carelessness of the management or faculty of such institutes. “