The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday questioned the BJP-led Centre for delaying the approval to the plan of the Delhi Government to regularise the unauthorised colonies for 4.5 years.

The party also said that the the Delhi Government passed the proposal to regularise such colonies and sent it to the Center for approval on 2nd November 2015.

"The Center was silent for the last 4.5 years on the proposal of the Delhi Government to regularise the unauthorised colonies. Today they have announced that they approved the proposal and started the work through Delhi Development Authority," said Rajya Sabha MP and AAP senior leader Sanjay Singh.

Singh said that nearly 4,00,000 people stay in unauthorised colonies of Delhi.

"It has been a longtime demand of the residents of unauthorised colonies to make these colonies regularised.  In 2015 we wrote in our manifesto that when we come to power in Delhi the AAP Government will regularise the unauthorised colonies," he said.

"The Delhi Government will start giving the ownership rights to the residents of unauthorised colonies within 24 hours of Centre’s decision to regularisation. We urge the centre to bring an ordinance and Mr Arvind Kejriwal's Government will start the work of registration within 24 hours," he said.

AAP national spokesperson Raghav Chahda said, "I want to request the Central Government not to delay the process of mapping of these unauthorised colonies. "The Delhi Government has already done this mapping through satellite images and the whole report is submitted to the Centre. I will urge the Centre to use the reports and to initiate the mapping process without further delay because the people of these unauthorised colonies are waiting for their ownership rights for many years."