Gearing up for Delhi Assembly elections, the BJP Members of Parliament (MPs) on Thursday targetted Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress for 'betraying' poor people and spreading false narrative on regularisation of unauthorised colonies.
In joint conference, Dr Harsh Vardhan, MP, Chandni Chowk said Kejriwal's governance is based on principles of deception and deep-rooted corruption. Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri, had requested Arvind Kejriwal to desist from spreading this disinformation campaign and instead concentrate on completing the Total Station Machine (TSM) Survey for identification of boundaries of the Unauthorized Colonies and other proceedings towards regularization
Accusing Congress party, Dr Harsh Vardhan charged that Congress is equally involved and cheated residents of unauthorised colonies in the name of regularisation.
Lauding Modi Government work for regularisation of unauthorised colonies, he said that there were three things that
AAP Government was required to do for the regularisation as per the Regularisation of 2008.
The AAP Government did not fulfil its responsibilities - delineation of colonies, constitution of a committee to decide titles, fixing charges and fees - despite being in power for five years," BJP leader alleged.
It was Modi Government who started the work for regularisation of unauthorised colonies in 2014 itself.
The press conference was attended by all the seven party MPs from the city, including BJP's Delhi unit chief Manoj Tiwari, in a show of strength and unity ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls.
Vardhan said the AAP government in a letter to the Centre has expressed its inability to regularise the colonies before 2021.
Pertinently, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in July had said that residents of unauthorised colonies in Delhi will soon have ownership rights of their properties and asserted that the Centre agreed to its proposal in this regard. "The Centre has sent a very positive response, they are ready and asked some questions which will be replied by us in a few days. The dream of residents in unauthorised colonies to have ownership rights of their properties will be realised soon," Kejriwal said.
Meanwhile, AAP party in response to BJP's allegation said that AAP has no problem in BJP claiming credit for this important issue, and on behlf of the people of Delhi the AAP wants to tell the BJP that please take all the credit.
"The AAP appeals to the BJP's central government that it should immediately approve the decision taken by the Delhi Cabinet in November 2015 for the regularisation of the unauthorised colonies, and the recommendations sent by the Delhi government last month on the draft cabinet note of the Union Urban Development Ministry,"
"This will enable the Delhi government to immediately begin process of registering the properties in the names of those owning properties in these colonies," AAP said in a statement.
"We believe that this is not the time for blame-game and all efforts of all concerned governments should be to ensure that unauthorised colonies are finally regularised, an issue which has been pending since more than seven decades and which has forced residents of these colonies to live in inhuman conditions," AAP said further.
There are 1,797 unauthorised colonies housing lakhs of people, that are awaiting regularisation for many years.
