Kalmadi's poll promise: 1-BHK for middle-income grps
PUNE, The bait is getting more and more attractive in these Lok Sabha elections. Rice at Rs 3 per kg and film star Chiranjee-vi's LPG at Rs 100 are passe. Now the Congress candidate in Pune, Suresh Kalmadi is promising cheap one BHK flats for the middle income group if he is voted to power ,apart from 350 square feet pucca houses for slum dwellers in the city. "My manifesto will be declared soon and I will be giving out details in these. But there are many ceiling lands that could be used for such projects," he told reporters at his first press conference after being given the party ticket to contest the Pune Lok Sabha seat. What he plans to do is release lands in reserved zones that have been blocked for long because of the ULC and use these for such projects. The slum dwellers and the middle income group have always voted for me and I should not forget them, he said. Meanwhile, his rival, builder-turned-politician DS Kulkarni, who has thrown his hat into the ring and is